Notes on Contributors
Meryl Altman is Professor of English and Women's Studies at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. She has published articles about Djuna Barnes, H. D., Faulkner, William Carlos Williams, Sappho, metaphor, and the history of sexuality, and writes periodically for the Women's Review of Books. Her current book project is tentatively titled "Before We Said We (and After): Postwar Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir." (maltman@depauw.edu)
Talia Mae Bettcher is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research interests include transgender studies, feminist philosophy, philosophy of self, and early modern philosophy. She has published articles on transgender issues and LGBT issues, and she is the author of Berkeley's Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology, and the Elusive Subject (2007). She is also co-editing a special issue of Hypatia entitled Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities with Ann Garry. (tbettch@calstatela.edu)
Patrice Diquinzio is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Association for Research on Mothering. She is author of The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Mothering (1999), coeditor with Sharon M. Meagher of Women and Children First: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy (2005), and coeditor with Iris Marion Young of Feminist Ethics and Social Policy (1997). (diquinzi@muhlenberg.edu)
Kimberly Hutchings is Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics. Her research interests are in the fields of feminist and continental philosophy and international ethics and political theory. Her publications include Kant, Critique and Politics (1996) and Hegel and Feminist Philosophy (2003). She is currently working on a book about conceptions of time in theories of contemporary world politics. (K.Hutchings@lse.ac.uk)
Amber Jacobs teaches English, critical theory, and gender studies at Sussex University, in the United Kingdom. Her book On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in fall 2007. (A.Jacobs@sussex.ac.uk) [End Page 234]
Joseph Kupfer is University Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University, where he teaches medical ethics, family ethics, philosophy of law, and aesthetics. He has written on privacy, architecture, lying, humility, generosity, and the parent-child relationship. His most recent work includes two books, Autonomy and Social Interaction (1990) and Visions of Virtue in Popular Film (1999), as well as articles on philosophy in film, romantic love, and the aesthetics of nature. (kupfer@iastate.edu)
Kimerer L. LaMothe is the author of Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values (2006) and Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies (2004). She has received fellowships for her work in philosophy, religion, and dance from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions. She also received the 2006 Lippincott Award from the Society for Dance History Scholars for the best English language article on dance published in 2005. She is currently an independent scholar and cofounder of Hebron Hollow: A Farm for Arts and Ideas. (klamothe@post.harvard.edu)
Shirong Luo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Simmons College in Boston, where he teaches Asian philosophy and religion, philosophy of religion, Greek philosophy, world religions, and philosophy and the arts. He is author of "A Defense of Ren-based Interpretation of Early Confucian Ethics," in Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously: Contemporary Theories and Applications (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). (shirong.luo@simmons.edu)
Mary Briody Mahowald is Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. She is editor of Philosophy of Woman (1993) and author of Women and Children in Health Care: An Unequal Majority (1995), Genes, Women, Equality (2000), and Bioethics and Women: Across the Life Span (2006).
Lorraine F. Mayer is Assistant Professor in Native Studies at Brandon University. She is a member of the Manitoba Metis Federation and her current research interests are in the area of cross-cultural relationships and how they affect our perceptions of the...
