Contributors
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Lois W. Banner is professor of history and gender studies at the University of Southern California. She is author of numerous articles and books on the history of women, including American Beauty (1983); In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality (1992); and Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women (1998). She is past president of the Conference Group in Women's History, American Studies Association, and Pacific Coast branch of the American Historical Association. She currently is working on a dual biography of Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead. <lbanner@mizar.usc.edu>
Phyllis Bronstein is professor of psychology at the University of Vermont, where she teaches family and group therapy in the clinical doctoral program. Her research interests include the long-term effects of parenting and family relationships on child and adolescent development, and the professional advancement of feminist and ethnic minority faculty. She currently is completing a revised edition of her coedited book, Teaching a Psychology of People: Resources for Gender and Sociocultural Awareness (American Psychological Association, forthcoming).<Phyllis.Bronstein@uvm.edu>
Leigh Ann Craig is a Ph.D. candidate at the Ohio State University. She currently is working on her dissertation entitled "Wandering Whores and Holy Matrons: Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages." <jdlacraig@cs.com>
Corinne T. Field is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history at Columbia University. She is working on a dissertation entitled "Woman's Rights and the Politics of Aging, 1848-1939."<ctf3@columbia.edu>
Katherine L. French is associate professor of medieval history at State University of New York, New Paltz. She is author of several articles on laywomen's piety and parish life, and The People of the Parish in a Medieval English Diocese (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming). <frenchk@matrix.newpaltz.edu>
Stephanie Gilmore is a graduate student in women's history at the Ohio State University. She currently is writing her dissertation on the historical trajectories of liberal and radical feminism during the second wave of feminist activism in the United States. <gilmore.78@osu.edu> [End Page 234]
Elizabeth D. Heineman, associate professor of history at the University of Iowa, is author of What Difference Does a Husband Make? Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany (1999). She currently is researching the history of women and sexuality in twentieth-century Germany through an examination of the life and work of Beate Uhse Roter-mund: Luftwaffe pilot, sex educator, and magnate of the West German sex industry.<lisa-heineman@uiowa.edu>
Sherri Klassen received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University. She currently is teaching at Trent University in Oshawa, Canada, and is a research associate at the Institute for Human Development, the Life Course, and Aging at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation was entitled "Aging Gracefully in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Elderly Women in Old Regime Toulouse" (1996).<s.klassen@utoronto.ca>
Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner have long shared an interest in and conversations about comparative women's history. Ann is author of many works on Chinese history, including Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China (1990). M. J. does research on Modern European history. Her books include Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization (1995). Their first collaboration was the conference on "Matrilinearity and Patrilinearity in Comparative Historical Perspective," held at the University of Minnesota in 1992. They were among the coeditors (with Birgitte Søland and Ulrike Strasser) of the conference volume Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History (1996). They have been teaching world history together since 1996 and currently are working on a pamphlet for the American Historical Association on "Family and Gender Relations in World History."<mayne001@maroon.tc.umn.edu>;<waltn001@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Leslie Paris is assistant professor of history at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She currently is revising her dissertation, completed in 2000 at the University of Michigan, entitled "Children's Nature: Summer Camps in New York State, 1919-1941."<Leslie.Paris@stmarys.ca>
Claire C. Robertson is associate professor of...
