Please download the pdf here with instructions for joining Googlegroups for the network.

We are organizing working groups around the network's key research and organizing initiatives. These groups will collaborate through a combination of private mailing list discussions and public-facing posts in discussion forms hosted by this website. To join the discussion for the current working groups, please email reproductivelabornetwork[at]gmail.com.

The initial groups proposed at the launch of the research network on the occasion of the “Actualités du Travail Reproductif” conference were the following four:

1) Research Projects: A group devoted to coordinating, informing, and sharing information about their research projects, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration and international networking in research endeavors. We invite “researchers” from diverse backgrounds in language, cultural experience, and disciplinary training across the social sciences and humanities from all over the world.

2) Communications: A group that would discuss communications tools (websites, mailings, pamphlets, publications, etc.). This group would also address, broadly speaking, the problems of translation across languages, generations, and political contexts. In this sense, the communications group would share concerns, particularly with the education group described below.

3) Fundraising: A group dedicated to the intricacies of funding and sustaining an international research network. We particularly seek people with experience in fundraising, grant application, and related skills to join this group!

4) Self-education and knowledge sharing: A group dedicated to sharing knowledge between generations of feminists whose work investigates reproductive labor and to organizing self-directed educational paths. This group would also address translation problems broadly, across languages, generations, and political contexts. Also important to this group's work will be promoting educational engagement among people with diverse experiences in using digital technologies and educational backgrounds.