Notes on Contributors

Kristana Arp is an associate professor and Chair of the philosophy department at Long Island University, Brooklyn. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, San Diego in 1987. She has published articles on Edmund Husserl and Simone de Beauvoir and is now completing her book, The Bonds of Freedom: The Existentialist Ethics of Simone de Beauvoir. (ksarp@aol.com)

Debra B. Bergoffen is a professor of philosophy and Director of the Women's Resource and Research Center at George Mason University, where she received the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1989 and the Teaching Excellence Award in 1993. Debra was the executive co-director of The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) from 1993-1996. Her most recent works include The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities (1997); "Mourning, Woman and the Phallus: Lacan's Hamlet" (Cultural Semiosis, 1998); "Nietzsche was no Feminist. . . ." (Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche, 1998); and "The Look as Bad Faith" (Philosophy Today, 1992). (dbergoff@gmu.edu)

Suzanne Cataldi is an associate professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She is the author of Emotion, Depth and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space. Her research focuses on conceptions of embodiment in feminism and phenomenology. She is currently working on feminist implications of Merleau-Ponty's thought. (scatald@siue.edu)

Edward Fullbrook, a regular contributor to economics journals, is the author (with Kate Fullbrook) of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend (1993) and Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction (1998), as well as numerous essays on Beauvoir's philosophical and social thought. (Edward.Fullbrook@btinternet.com)

Eva Gothlin holds a Ph.D. in History of Ideas and Science from Göteborg University, Sweden. Currently, she is director of the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research. She has published (under the name Eva Lundgren-Gothlin) Sex and Existence: Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (1996) and a number of essays: for example, "Gender and Ethics in the Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir," NORA, Nordic Journal for Women's Studies, no. 1 (1995); "Ethics, Feminism and Postmodernism: Seyla Benhabib and Simone de Beauvoir," Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 58 (1997); and "Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics and its Relation to Current Moral Philosophy," Simone de Beauvoir Studies, vol. 14 (1997). (eva.gothlin@genus.gu.se)

Sara Heinämaa is Docent of Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a professor of women's studies at the Universities of Turku (Finland) and Oslo (Norway). Her work is in phenomenology and epistemology. She has published two books and several articles on phenomenology of body and sexuality. She has recently also written on Luce Irigaray's relation to the phenomenological tradition and, through phenomenology, to Descartes's radicalism. (sara.heinamaa@helsinki.fi)

Eleanore Holveck is an associate professor of philosophy at Duquesne University, where she has served as department chair for the past nine years. She is finishing a book on Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy as it is embodied in fiction. She has worked in the phenomenology of Husserl and Kantian ethics; her most recent article is on the existentialism of Hazel E. Barnes. (holveck@duq.edu)

Marguerite La Caze is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania. Her publications include work on Simone de Beauvoir and Michèle Le Dœuff. She has interests in feminist philosophy, philosophy and literature, ethics, and history of philosophy. She is currently working on the ethics of sexual difference. (Marguerite.LaCaze@utas.edu.au)

Gail E. Linsenbard is an assistant professor in the General Studies Program at New York University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1996; her dissertation was titled "An Investigation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Posthumously Published Notebooks for an Ethics." Her article on Beauvoir's contribution to women's rights in Africa will soon appear in the book, Women's Rights as Human Rights: Activism and Social Change in Africa; her book investigating Sartre's...