Dr. Jyl J. Josephson
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark campus. She is the author of numerous articles on gender and public policy published in journals such as the Journal of Poverty, New Political Science, Journal of Political Ideologies, and Women & Politics. She is the author of Gender, Families, and State: Child Support Policy in the United States (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) and co-edited Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives (Rowman & Littlefield 2003) with Cynthia Burack. She is currently working with Paula Ressler on a manuscript regarding projects that seek to make schools safer for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students and their allies. Her two other major projects include a book project that examines privacy and intimate life from the perspective of groups whose privacy claims most frequently have been disparaged and foreclosed and an ongoing research project on the development of a faith-based community organization in west Texas.
Jyl Josephson published "Citizenship, Same-Sex Marriage, and Feminist Critiques of Marriage," in the June 2005 Perspectives on Politics. Other 2005 scholarly publications include Gender and American Politics: Women, Men, and the Political Process, 2nd edition, with Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, as well as two book chapters. In May 2005 the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force published "A Report From 'Love Won Out: Addressing, Understanding, and Preventing Homosexuality,'" co-authored with Cynthia Burack.
Contact info:
Director of Women's Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
415 Hill Hall
360 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: (973) 353-1026
Fax: (973) 353-1450
Email: jylj@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Web: http://womenstudies.newark.rutgers.edu/
