Notes on Contributors

Ruth Abbey lectures in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. From December 2000, she will be a member of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury. She has books forthcoming on Nietzsche's middle period and on the work of Charles Taylor. (rabbey@nd.edu.au)

Susan Babbitt teaches philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Impossible Dreams: Rationality, Integrity and Moral Imagination (1996) and is co-editor with Sue Campbell of Racism and Philosophy (1999). She has recently completed a second book on moral imagination and is conducting research on women in Cuba with three-year funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. (babbitts @post.queensu.ca)

Nancy Frankenberry is the John Phillips Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College and is associated with the Women's Studies Program. She writes regularly on topics in the study of religion, radical empiricism, pragmatism, and feminist philosophy of religion (most recently in Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions, edited by Janet A. Kourany). (nkf@dartmouth.edu)

Greta Gaard is author of Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (1998), editor of Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature (1993), and coeditor with Patrick D. Murphy of Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy (1998). She is at work on a volume of ecofeminist creative nonfiction, Home Is Where You Are. (gaard@cc.wwu.edu)

Gurleen Grewal is Associate Professor in Women's Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Author of Circles of Sorrow/Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison (1998), she teaches postcolonial feminist theory and literature. (grewal@luna.cas.usf.edu)

Nancy J. Holland is Hanna Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University. She has published articles on Derrida, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, and others, and is the author of Is Women's Philosophy Possible? (1990) and The Madwoman's Reason: The Concept of the Appropriate in Ethical Thought (1998), editor of Feminist Interpretations of Jacques Derrida (1997), and co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger (forthcoming). (nholland@gw.hamline.edu)

Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at The Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, The Union Institute. She was Hannah Arendt's teaching assistant at The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, The New School, New York, and is the author of Transforming Knowledge (1990). (elizamin@aol.com)

Barbara Nicholas holds degrees in science and theology, and a Ph.D. in bioethics. She has taught bioethics at Otago Medical School for five years, and also spent time as a researcher in health technology assessment. She has published in the areas of medical education, and the social and ethical implications of genetic technology. (barbaran@paradise.net.nz)

Linda Nicholson is the Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.. She is the author of Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family (1986) and The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern (1999). Her edited collections include: Feminism/Postmodernism (1990), The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory (1997), and, with Steven Seidman, Social Postmodernism (1995). She has edited the series "Thinking Gender" with Routledge. (lnichols@artsci.wustl.edu)

Kelly Oliver is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at SUNY Stony Brook. She is the author of several books, including Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture and Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers. Her book Witnessing: Beyond Recognition is forthcoming in Fall 2000. (kelly.oliver@sunysb.edu)

Donald Walhout was born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1927. He earned a B.A. from Adrian College in 1949, an M.A. from Yale University in 1950, and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1952. After teaching one year at Yale, he took a teaching position at Rockford College and served as chair of the philosophy department there from 1953 until his retirement as emeritus professor in 1992. He has authored...