Notes on Contributors

Claudia Card is Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, with affiliations in Women's Studies, LGBT Studies, Jewish Studies, and Environmental Studies. She is the author of The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil (2002), The Unnatural Lottery: Character and Moral Luck (1996), and Lesbian Choices (1995), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (2003), On Feminist Ethics and Politics (1999), Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy (1994), and Feminist Ethics (1991). Currently she is a Senior Fellow (2002–2007) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, at work on a book on atrocities and an introduction to feminist philosophy. (cfcard@wisc.edu)

Nancy Evans is assistant professor of Classics at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She teaches Greek and Latin language and literaturecourses in the Classics department, as well as courses in the Women's Studies and Religious Studies programs. Her research on Greek religion and archaeology has appeared in the journals Numen and Ancient Society. She is currently finishing a book entitled Civil Rites: Democracy and Religion in Classical Athens. (nevans@wheatonma.edu)

Karyn L. Freedman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. Her research interests are in epistemology, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy. She has published articles on naturalized epistemology and currently is working on a monograph that expands on the arguments found in her "Epistemological Significance of Psychic Trauma." (karynf@uoguelph.ca)

Wendy Gunther-Canada is Professor of Government at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of essays and books on gender politics, including Rebel Writer: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment Politics. She is also coauthor of the 3rd and 4th editions of Women, Politics, and American Society. She currently is completing a study of Catharine Macaulay's political writing. (wgcanada@uab.edu)

Nancy C. M. Hartsock is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. She is the author of several books, including The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays (Westview 1998). She is at work on a book-length study of women and commodification in contemporary global capitalism. (hartsock@u.washington.edu)

Cressida J. Heyes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada, where she writes and teaches in political theory, ethics, and feminist philosophy. Her first book, Line Drawings: Defining Women through Feminist Practice, was published in 2000 by Cornell University Press, followed in 2003 by her edited volume The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy. She has just finished a book applying Foucault's account of normalization to transforming gendered bodies, which includes discussion of transsexuality, weight-loss dieting, and cosmetic surgery. She is also currently coediting a volume of essays on feminist perspectives on cosmetic surgery. (cressida.heyes@ualberta.ca)

Karen Houle has spent roughly equal amounts of time becoming a fiction writer, scholar, parent, and teacher. She is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, in Canada, having also been on faculty at the University of Alberta and Mount Allison University. She has published articles on Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari. Her book, Ballast (2000) was nominated by the Canadian League of Poets for the Lampert Prize for best first book of poetry in Canada. (khoule@uoguelph.ca)

Kathy Dow Magnus teaches feminist philosophy at Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. She recently returned to the United States after living in Germany for several years, during which time she was a Fulbright Junior Professor in Hamburg and postdoctoral fellow in the graduate program in Women's Studies at the University of Frankfurt. In addition to her work in feminist theory, she has published several articles in social theory, aesthetics, and German Idealism, as well as a book on Hegel, entitled Hegel and the Symbolic Mediation of Spirit (SUNY Press 2001). Her current research focuses on the role of guilt, shame, and pride in the dynamics of social (mis)recognition. (KTMAGNUS@aol.com)

Gail Mason is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney. Previously, she taught in Gender Studies and Criminology...