Notes on Contributors

Susan Bickford is assistant professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict, and Citizenship (Cornell University Press, 1996). Her essays on feminist and democratic theory include the recent "Reconfiguring Pluralism: Identity and Institutions in the Inegalitarian Polity," American Journal of Political Science 43:1 (January 1999). (bickford@email.unc.edu)

Joyce Davidson is currently engaged in E.S.R.C. funded research in the Geography Department at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work, which looks at the embodied identities of agoraphobic women, draws on her background in philosophy to develop a feminist, phenomenological perspective on the problematization of body boundaries that agoraphobia entails. She thus hopes to provide insights into gendered links between space, embodiment and mental health. (jyd@geo.ed.ac.uk)

Pelagia Goulimari is the general editor of Angelaki: Journal of the TheoreticalHumanities and an editor of the journal's associated book series, Angelaki Humanities (Manchester UP). She is preparing a book, based on her Ph.D. thesis, with the provisional title "For a Minoritarian Ethics of Inclusion." She works as a tutor for Oxford University. (goulimari@angelaki1.demon.co.uk)

Kristen Kennedy is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University, where she teaches rhetoric, writing, and British literature. She is currently working on a study of Cynic rhetoric and a history of ethics in the teaching of composition. (kennedkf@wfu.edu)

Diane Raymond is professor of philosophy and current chair of the recently created Women's Studies Department at Simmons College, Boston. She is the author of Existentialism and the Philosophical Tradition and (with Warren Blumenfeld) of Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life. In addition, she has numerous published essays on sexuality, ethics, multicultural theory, and cultural studies. She is currently working on a project linking feminist and poststructuralist analyses of identity with on-going questions in ethical theory, including abortion and euthanasia. (draymond@vmsvax.simmons.edu)

Lisa Schwartzman is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she teaches social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and ethics. She is writing a dissertation on feminism and liberal political theory. (lschwart@ic.sunysb.edu)

Mick Smith originally trained as an ecologist before turning to philosophy and social theory. His main field of concern remains that of environmental ethics. He has recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Politics. He is on the review board for Environmental Ethics. He lectures in ethics, social theory and environmental sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland. (bstmfs@tay.ac.uk)

Rosemarie Tong is Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Prior to her UNC Charlotte appointment, she taught Women's Studies and Bioethics courses at Davidson College (NC) and Williams College (MA). She has authored or co-authored 11 books including Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction, Feminine and Feminist Ethics, and Feminist Approaches toBioethics. She was recently elected co-coordinator of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Currently, she is co-editing an anthology entitled Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Women's Health Concerns Worldwide. (rotong@email.uncc.edu)

Abby Wilkerson is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Writing Program at George Washington University. Her book Diagnosis: Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine has just been published by Cornell University Press. She holds a Ph. D. in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. (alw@gwu.edu)

George Yancy received his B.A. degree (cum laude) in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh and his M.A. in philosophy from Yale University. He is editor of African-American Philosophers, 17 Conversations (Routledge, 1998). He has contributed articles and reviews to such scholarly journals as Social Science Quarterly, The Western Journal of Black Studies, The Journal of Religious Thought, and The College Language Association Journal. Yancy currently reviews books for Popular Music and Society.