Contributors
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Daniel E. Bender is assistant professor of history at University of Waterloo. He is the author of Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004) and co-editor with Richard Greenwald of Sweatshop U.S.A.: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective (New York: Routledge, 2003). His articles have also appeared in International Labor and Working-Class History and the Radical History Review.
Katherine Elaine Bliss is associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has published articles in the Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Family History, and Latin American Research Review. She is the author of Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001). Her current research focus is the history and cultural politics of reproductive health programs in mid-twentieth-century Latin America.
Ann S. Blum is assistant professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her research approaches urban family history in Mexico through the lens of public institutions of child welfare. Her recent work examines child welfare and liberalism; changing patterns of child abandonment; wet nursing, labor, and constructions of maternity; pediatrics and infant mortality; and adoption law and practice. <Ann.Blum@umb.edu>
Leela Fernandes is associate professor of Political Science and Women's/Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997). She has written numerous articles and essays on women and labor, class politics, cultural representation, nationalism and globalization. She is currently writing a book that examines processes of economic globalization, cultural politics, gender, and class in contemporary India.
Maria Grever is professor of history and theory (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) and associate professor of gender history (University of [End Page 230] Nijmegen), the Netherlands. Her research focuses on temporality and collective memory; royal rituals, and (post)colonial heritage. Together with Berteke Waaldijk, she is publishing the monograph, Transforming the Public Sphere. The Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor in 1898 (Duke University Press, 2004).
Julie Guard is assistant professor of economics and coordinator of the Labour and Workplace Studies program at the University of Manitoba. She has published articles on gender, ethnicity, and working-class identity; her article on gender relations and the construction of identity in a radical union, in Labour/le travail, won the Hilda Neathby prize for women's and gender history. She is currently researching the history of Canada's post-World War II consumer movement, a radical grassroots movement that mobilized hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in campaigns for economic democracy and is also involved in a collaborative project on call centers and unionization. In addition to her academic work, she is active in women's, labor, and peace movements.
Ruth Mazo Karras is professor of history at the University of Minnesota. Her most recent book is From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe and she has published widely on aspects of gender and sexuality in medieval western Europe. She is currently completing a book on medieval sexuality and beginning one on marriage and other partnerships.
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History and professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University, where she is currently chair of the history department. She is the author of many books and articles about wage-earning women, including Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences, and Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview. She most recently published In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, which won the Bancroft Prize and the Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association.
Philippa Levine is professor of history at the University of Southern California. Her most recent book is Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (Routledge, 2003). In 2004, Oxford University Press will publish her edited volume on gender and empire...
