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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS MARJORiE agosín is a poet, human rights activist, and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. She has written approximately thirty books ofpoetry, memoirs, and essays. Her most recent collections are Rain in the Desert and TheAncjel ofMemory, both poetry. She is the recipient ofinternational prizes for her poetry and human rights activism. rita ARDITTi was born and grew up in Argentina and has lived in the United States since 1965. She is a member of the faculty of the Graduate College of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Union Institute and University. Her most recent book is Searching for Life: The Grandmothers ofthe Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children ofArgentina (University ofCalifornia Press). Christine benvenuto's short stories and articles have appeared in many publications. She recendy completed a novel with the assistance ofa grant from the Vogelstein Foundation, and is currendyworking on a non-fiction book about the gentile woman in Judaism, to be published by St. Martin's Press. Karina céspedes lives in California where she is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. Her dissertation is on contemporary tourism culture and sex work in Cuba. Since 1999 she has been Executive Editor atThird Woman Press. RADHiKA COOMARASWAMY received her B.A. at Yale, her J.D. at Columbia, and her L.L.M. at Harvard. She is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and the Director of the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She has written widely on issues ofconstitutional law, human rights, ethnic identity, and women's rights. Martha duffield grew up in El Paso, Texas. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and is Associate Publisher at Third Woman Press in Berkeley, California. catriona rueda esquibel is a Chicana of mixed Mexican (second generation) and Native Nuevomejicana (twelve generations) mestiza 276 ancestry, and a first-generation academic. She is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Ohio State University. Her book, With Her Machete in Her Hand: Chicana Lesbians in the Popular Imagination, will soon be published by the University ofTexas Press. "Irony" is from Guadalupe's Daughters, a work in progress. SYLVANNA falcon is currently a doctoral student in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her intellectual interests include race and ethnic relations, transnational feminism, and human rights. She has lived in California most of her life, spending seven politically influential years in the San Francisco Bay area. FARiDEH FARHi currentiy lives in Honolulu where she works as an independent researcher. She has taught comparative politics at the University ofColorado, Boulder, University ofHawai'i at Manoa, and Tehran University. Her research focus has been on comparative analysis ofrevolutions and Iranian politics, including gender relations. nina ha is a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include Asian American literature, ethnic American studies, women's studies, and cultural studies. Her dissertation research is on contemporary Vietnamese American and Vietnamese diasporic literature. barbara harlowis the Louann and LarryTemple Centennial Professor of English Literature at the University ofTexas at Austin. She is the author ofResistance Literature (1986), Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention (1992), After Liues: Legacies ofRevolutionary Writing (1996), and co-editor with Mia Carter ofImperialism and Orientalism: A Documentary Sourcebook (1999). She is currentlyworkingon an intellectual biography ofthe South African activist, Ruth First. Rochelle LYNN holt has published over 250 stories since 1970. Her novel Wound concerns a conflicted poet. She has lived in several states in the Midwest as well as Mississippi, Alabama, and now the Gulf Coast ofFlorida. Multi-Ethnic Contemporary Novels (Kindred Spirit Press 2002) is a sequel bibliography available in November. terry kawashima is Assistant Professor in the Department ofAsian Languages and Literatures, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. AYESHA khan is a development researcher based in Karachi, Pakistan, who focuses on women, health, and conflict issues. She has also ABOUTTHE CONTRIBUTORS 277 worked as a freelance journalist, covering women, development, and refugee issues in the region. She studied at Yale University, and at the School ofOriental and African Studies in London. sanda mayzaw lwin is Assistant Professor of American...

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