Notes on Contributors

Roger Davidson, who is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh, has published widely on the history of sexuality. He is the author of Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland (Amsterdam, 2000) and co-editor with Lesley Hall of Sex, Sin, and Suffering: Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870 (London, 2001).

David D. Doyle, Jr., earned his Ph.D. from the City University of New York, Graduate Center and is currently the Director of the University Honors Program and Adjunct Lecturer of History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is at work on a book examining homosexuality among the American upper classes at the end of the nineteenth century.

Franz X. Eder is Professor in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. His research interests focus on the use of quantitative methods, the history of the family, labor organization, and consumption, as well as the history of sexuality from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. His recent publications include Kultur der Begierde. Eine Geschichte der Sexualität (Munich, 2002) and two co-edited volumes, one with Sabine Frühstück, Neue Geschichten der Sexualität. Beispiele aus Ostasien und Zentraleuropa 1700–2000 (Vienna, 2000), the other with Lesley Hall and Gert Hekma, Sexual Cultures in Europe. Vol. I: National Histories, Vol. II: Themes in Sexuality (Manchester, 1999). He is also co-editor of the ÖZG—Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften—and editor of the WWW database Bibliography of the History of Western Sexuality, 1700–1945 (http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/Sexbibl).

Silke R. Falkner is Associate Professor of German at the University of Saskatchewan. Interested in gender and the textual construction of meaning and identities, she has published work on emblems in seventeenth-century marriage sermons, rhetorical strategies of self-representation by the baroque poet Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, Mephisto's opportunity for redemption in Goethe's Faust II, and the self in contemporary novels by Gabrielle Alioth and Günter Grass. She is currently working on a monograph about Greiffenberg's Pillar of Victory, a turcica text that vividly demonstrates the creation of an early modern Other at the intersection of race, religion, and gender.

Christiane Leidinger, who trained as a political scientist, teaches and publishes in the fields of German lesbian/women's movement history and lesbian/feminist/queer theory at three universities in Berlin. Another area of interest is media studies, in which she focuses on the media and globalization. At present, she is writing a book about the German lesbian-feminist activist Johanna Elberskirchen (1864–1943).