The CWS Library and Documentation Centre houses a wide collection of books and documents. The Library is open to students and faculty members from all over the University. Visitors to the Centre/University can also consult the Library holdings, if they have prior permission from the Chair to do so.

Rules:

CWS faculty and Direct PhD Students are allowed to issue books. All other members of the university, or people from outside the university, with prior permission, can sit in the library and use the available resources.

 

 International Collaborations :

Erasmus+ Programme: Center for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi and Vilnius University (VU) in Lithuania have an ongoing Erasmus agreement. This agreement facilitates exchanges and mobility between VU and Center for Women's Studies, JNU.

UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project: "Globalising Gender Studies after the Cold War: Histories and Movements, 1985-2025". 
Co-Lead: Dr. Mallarika Sinha Roy, Assistant Professor, CWS, JNU.

This international collaborative project brings together a distinguished research team consisting of one Principal Investigator (University of Cambridge), two Co-leads (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and Jawaharlal Nehru University), and three postdoctoral research fellows across three continents.

Globalising Gender Studies explores the gendered effects of transitions to liberal democracy and neoliberal market economies after the Cold War through a comprehensive global history of Women's & Gender Studies. The project is conducted in partnership with women's studies centres and non-profit organisations across Eastern Europe, Latin America, and South Asia.

Our research challenges narratives that emphasize the imposition of 'gender expertise' by the global North, instead uncovering the rich history of contestation and negotiation between global and local actors. Through archival research and interviews with international donors, national governments, and women's/gender studies centres, we explore the complex process of institutionalization from the perspective of contemporary actors.

The project provides a unique comparative analysis of how this interdisciplinary field emerged through interactions between international donors, financial institutions, philanthropic foundations, national governments, and local social movements in the global South and post-socialist East.

 

Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) Courses:

(Global Initiative of Academic Networks, Ministry of Education, India and Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)

In the Event of Women: Teaching East to East, South to South, by Prof. Tani Barlow, Rice University, USA. 27 Nov-8 Dec 2017.

Feminism, Theatre and Activism, by Prof. Elaine Aston, Professor Emerita at Lancaster University, UK. 17th-21st February 2025.

 

Student Publications (2024-Present):


Ardra R.

  • “Monstrous Daughters and Forgotten Mothers: Rewriting the ‘Matrilineal’” In Feminist Dystopias - ‘Horror Womenism: Reclaiming the Monstrous Feminine’: Volume 1, Omniversa Publications. 2026.

  • “Memory and the Female Subject: An Analysis of ‘Ormayude Njarambu’ by KR Meera” – in ‘Cultural Memory in Translation: Revisiting Cultural Memory Through Interpretative Lens’, CSMFL Books. 2025.

  • Feminisation of Terror: The Overlooked Role of Women in Terrorism’, The International Prism https://www.theinternationalprism.com/feminisation-of-terror-the-overlooked-role-of-women-in-terrorism/ . 2024.

Himalika Mohanty

Upcoming Publications

Shrestha Bandopadhyay

Sandhya Gawali