Notes on Contributors
Erica Hesch Anstey received her Master's degree in women's studies from the University of South Florida in May 2006. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in public health also at the University of South Florida. Her research interests include environmental toxins and reproductive health, breast-feeding issues, and sexual health education. (eanstey@mail.usf.edu)
Joan Callahan is Professor of Philosophy, Director of Gender and Women's Studies, and a member of the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky, where she also serves as faculty associate in the Program for Bioethics and Patients' Rights. Her articles have appeared in a number of philosophy, medical, and legal journals and she is author/coauthor/editor of several books. Callahan currently is working on two projects: a comparative law study on the regulation of speech in democratic societies and, in collaboration with Nancy Tuana, creation of an audiovisual archive on feminist philosophy in North America. (buddy@uky.edu)
Claudia Card is Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where she also has teaching affiliations with women's studies, LGBT studies, Jewish studies, and environmental studies. Her most recent books are The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil (Oxford, 2002) and The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (2003). Currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Wisconsin campus), she is writing another book on evil and an introduction to feminist philosophy. Her work was recently celebrated with a "Cardfest," a two-day conference at the University of Wisconsin, sponsored by former Ph.D. students (now professors) Kate Norlock and Andrea Veltman. (cfcard@wisc.edu)
Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and Women and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is author of seven books, the earliest being Beyond Accommodation (1991) and the most recent being Between Women and Generations (2002) and Defending Ideals (2004). She is now finishing a book on New Critical Theory. Also a playwright, Cornell has recently produced "The Dream Cure," "Life Line," and a dramatized version of "Finnegan's Wake." She is cofounder of Take Back the Future, a forum in the United States for discussing and taking action on the political crises of our time. In South Africa, she is collaboratively directing the Ubuntu Project, which seeks to include traditional ideals in the constitutional clauses and legal [End Page 252] interpretations within the developing judicial system of the new South Africa. (SGKCORNELL@aol.com)
Sara L. Crawley is an assistant professor of women's studies at the University of South Florida. Trained as a sociologist and women's studies scholar, her work centers on feminist and queer theories and the narration of coherent identities among lesbians and transgender people. She finds that entry-level university students are very receptive to both feminist and queer theories if teachers make the classroom come alive with personal stories and a little bit of pop music. (scrawley@cas.usf.edu)
Margaret Denike is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Human Rights Program at Carleton University. She is a former president of the National Association of Women and the Law, and member of the Advisory Council to the Law Commission of Canada, participating in the commission's mandate concerning the legal recognition of personal relationships. (margaret_denike@carleton.ca)
Erika Feigenbaum, Ph.D. writes, works, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches women's studies and works at a Cleveland arts and cultural nonprofit organization. She is a community activist and gardener involved in other such meaningful engagement with the world. Her creative work has appeared in Off Our Backs, Sinister Wisdom, and other publications. (E.Feigenbaum@csuohio.edu)
Ann Ferguson is Professor of Philosophy and Acting Director and Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her areas of specialization are feminist theory, philosophy of sexuality and queer theory, ethics and social and political philosophy, philosophies of race, class and gender, Latin American feminist theory and practice, feminist approaches to globalization, and issues...
