The Award was originally a biennial award for career and/or publication, and is now annual. • 2025 -
Manisha Desai • 2024 -
Cecilia Menjívar • 2023 -
Raka Ray • 2022 -
Marlese Durr • 2021 -
Jyoti Puri • 2020 -
Jennifer Glass • 2019 •
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas •
Bandana Purkayastha • 2018 - No award presented • 2017 -
Raewyn Connell, career • 2016 -
Ronnie J. Steinberg, career • 2015 -
Nancy A. Naples, career • 2014 •
Esther Ngan-ling Chow, career •
Christine L. Williams, career • 2013 -
Kathleen Gerson, career • 2012 -
Michael A. Messner, career • 2011 -
Verta Taylor, career • 2010 -
Harriet Presser, career • 2009 -
Cecilia L. Ridgeway, career • 2008 -
Arlie Hochschild, career • 2007 -
Patricia Yancey Martin, career • 2006 -
Margaret L. Andersen, career • 2005 -
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, career • 2004 -
Myra Marx Ferree, career • 2003 -
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, career • 2002 -
Barrie Thorne, career • 2001 -
Barbara Laslett, career • 2000 -
Maxine Baca Zinn, career • 1999 -
Paula England, career • 1998 -
Ruth A. Wallace, career • 1997 •
Nona Glazer, career; •
Robbie Pfeufer Kahn,
Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth (University of Illinois Press, 1995); • Honorable Mention:
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo,
Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (University of California Press, 1994). • 1996 •
Judith Lorber, career; •
Diane L. Wolf,
Factory Daughters (University of California Press, 1992). • 1995 •
Arlene Kaplan Daniels, career; •
Ruth Frankenberg,
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minnesota); •
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and
Madeline D. Davis,
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of A Lesbian Community (Routledge). • 1993 •
Dorothy Smith, career; • Memphis State University Center for Research on Women (
Bonnie Thornton Dill,
Elizabeth Higginbotham,
Lynn Weber) for significant collective work; •
Patricia Hill Collins,
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. • 1991 -
Barbara Katz Rothman,
Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchical Society (W.W. Norton & Co., 1989). • 1989 •
Joan Acker, career; •
Samuel R. Cohn,
The Process of Occupational Sex Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain (Temple University Press, 1985); • Honorable Mention:
Karen Brodkin Sacks,
Caring by the Hour (University of Illinois Press). • 1987 •
Sandra Harding,
The Science Question in Feminism (Cornell University Press, 1986); •
Judith Rollins,
Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers (Temple University Press, 1986). • 1985 •
Joan Huber, career; •
Judith G. Stacey,
Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China. • 1983 -
Alice Rossi, career • 1981 -
Elise Boulding, career • 1979 •
Valerie Kincaid Oppenheimer,
The Female Labor Force in the United States: Demographic and Economic Factors Governing Its Growth and Changing Composition (University of California and Greenwood Press); •
Nancy Chodorow,
The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (University of California Press); • Honorable Mention to
Kristin Luker,
Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (University of California Press). ==See also==