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Contributors E. Susan Barber is an associate professor of history and chair of the History/Political Science Department, College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She is coauthor with Charles F. Ritter of “‘Physical Abuse and Rough Handling’: Race, Gender, and Sexual Justice in the Occupied South,” in Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation , and the American Civil War, ed., LeeAnn Whites and Alecia P. Long. She is also author of “‘The White Wings of Eros’: Courtship and Marriage in Confederate Richmond,” in Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South, ed. Catherine Clinton (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) and “Depraved and Abandoned Women: Prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, Across the Civil War,” in Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, ed., Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Sharon Block is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Her first book was Rape and Sexual Power in Early America, and her current scholarship has a dual focus on digital humanities and on the meanings of bodily descriptions in colonial print culture. Antonia I. Castañeda, a Chicana feminist historian, was born in Texas and raised in Washington state; she received her B.A. from Western Washington State College, her M.A. from the University of Washington, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University . She is the author of numerous articles, including the prize-winning “Women of Color and the Re-Writing of Western History.” She is retired and lives in San Antonio , Texas. Rhonda Copelon was a professor at CUNY Law School, vice-president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, founder of the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice, and cofounder of CUNY Law School’s International Women’s Human Rights Clinic (IWHR). Copelon was noted for her key role in the landmark human rights case, Filartiga v. Pena-Irala, which established that victims of gross human rights abuses committed abroad had recourse to U.S. courts. Additionally, she argued before the Supreme Court in Harris v. McRae, in which the Court narrowly upheld the Hyde Amendment, which prohibited Medicaid reimbursement for almost all abortions. Under Copelon’s leadership, IWHR’s amicus briefs in the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia contributed to the recognition in international law of rape as a crime of genocide and torture. IWHR’s work with the 322 Contributors United Nations’s Committee Against Torture and other international bodies contributed to the recognition that gender crimes, such as domestic and other forms of gender violence, can constitute torture under the United Nations’s Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment . In addition, the IWHR coordinated an effort with partners across the globe ensuring that the Rome Statute was written to take gender into account concerning the crimes, procedure, and evidence and composition of the court and personnel. Rhonda Copelon died in 2010. Anne Curry is a professor of medieval history at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on the Hundred Years War and in particular the battle of Agincourt and the English occupation of Normandy (1415–50). She has published extensively in England and France on these topics and also edited the 1422–53 section of The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, a definitive new edition of this key historical source. Barbara Donagan is an independent scholar. Her publications include articles on aspects of war and religion in seventeenth-century England and a book on the English civil war, War in England 1642–1649. She is currently working on the impact of civil war on civilian society. Kathy L. Gaca is an associate professor of classics at Vanderbilt University. Her wide-ranging research is unified in exploring how sexual norms rooted in antiquity inform current concerns of social injustice. She is the author of The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity (winner of the CAMWS 2006 Outstanding Publication Award) and of numerous articles, including “The Andrapodizing of War Captives in Greek Historical Memory” and “Reinterpreting the Homeric Simile of Iliad 16.7–11: The Girl and Her Mother in Ancient Greek Warfare.” She is currently at work on her second book, Armed and Sexual Warfare Against Women and Girls in Classical Antiquity. She received her Ph.D. in Classics at the University of Toronto and held the Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. Robert Gerwarth is Professor...

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