Contributors

Contributors Susan AMUSSEN is professor of interdisdpUnary studies at the Union Institute. She is the author of An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England (1988) and the co-editor of Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England (1995). Mary Hawkesworth is professor of political science and a member of the women's studies faculty at the University of Louisville. She is the author of Theoretical Issues in Policy Analysis (1988) and Beyond Oppression (1990) and the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Government and Politics (1992). Her research interests include contemporary political phüosophy, feminist theory, and social policy. Sybil Lipschultz teaches history and women's studies at the University of Miami. Her book, Gender Politics: Creating Women's Labor Laws in America, 1980-1940, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Carolyn Malone is assistant professor of history at Ball State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1991. She is currently writing on the "languages" of protection and finishing her book, Gender, Work, and the State: Protective Labor L·gislation in England, 1891-1914. James C. Mohr is professor and chair of the history department at the University of Oregon. He has published five books and numerous artides on American sodal, medical, and poUcy history and has testified before the United States Senate as an expert on the history of abortion. His most recent book is Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America (1993). Karen Offen is a historian and independent scholar, affiUated with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University. She co-edited Writing Women's History (1991) with Ruth Roach Pierson and Jane RandaU and is currently completing books on the women question in modern France and on European feminism from 1700 to 1950. She has recently been awarded a Guggenheim FeUowship. Joëlle Rollo-Koster holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and teaches history part-time at Castleton State CoUege in Vermont. Her research centers on the population of Avignon during the fourteenth century, Provençal confraternities, and the cult of Mary Magdalene in the south of France. 1996 Contributors 201 PEGGY SIMPSON has covered the economic psychology of the changes in the former Soviet sateUite countries since mid-1990. Based in Poland, she is a columnist and contributing editor for the Warsaw Business Journal, contributing editor for Ms. Magazine, and PoUsh stringer for Business Week, CBS Radio, and Christian Science Monitor Radio. She has been a Nieman Fellow, a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and J. Stewart RUey Professor of Journatism at Indiana University (1990-1991). She covered the International Women's Year conference in Mexico City for the AP and wrote freelance articles from the Nairobi and Beijing conferences . SUSAN L. Smith is assistant professor of Justory and women's studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 (1995). Phyllis Stock-Morton is professor of history at Seton Hall University. She is the author of Better than Rubies: A History of Women's Education (1978) and Moral Education for a Secular Society: The Development o/Morale Laïque in Nineteenth-Century France (1988). ...