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>> 259 About the Contributors Arianne Chernock is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Boston University, where she specializes in modern British and gender history . Her first book, Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism, was published by Stanford University Press in 2010. Related essays have appeared in the Journal of British Studies, Enlightenment and Dissent, and the edited collection Women, Gender and Enlightenment. She is currently researching the politics of queenship in Victorian Britain. Anna Clark is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Desire: A History of Sexuality in Europe (2008); Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (2004); The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995); and Women’s Silence, Men’s Violence: Sexual Assault in Britain, 1780–1845 (1987), as well as numerous articles, including “Twilight Moments” and “Anne Lister’s Construction of Lesbian Identity,” both in the Journal of the History of Sexuality. She is now working on a project entitled “Secret Selves and Victorian Individuality.” Barbara Engel is Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder . A recipient of support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, among others, she is the author of Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth Century Russia (1983); Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work and Family in Russia, 1861–1914 (1994), Women in Russia: 1700–2000 (2004), and most recently, Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia (2011), as well as numerous articles. Kate Haulman is Assistant Professor of History at American University, where she focuses on early American, women’s and gender, and cultural history . She is the author of The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (2011), which won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize 260 > 261 Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing and Liberating Egypt (1805–1923) was published by the University of California Press (2005). Related essays have been published in Arab Studies Journal, Social Politics, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Gender and History. Her current work considers British constructions of race in late nineteenth-century Egypt and the Sudan. Claire Robertson is Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University, where she has taught since 1984. She received her M.A. from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in African History. She has published over fifty articles and six books on the subjects of women and slavery, African women and trade, education, socioeconomic structure, genital cutting, and life histories, with particular reference to Ghana and Kenya. Her present research focuses on Saint Lucia: its African connections, history from the late eighteenth century to the present, and life histories of the elderly. Her interests include ethnobotanical history, feminist theory, political economy, family history, comparative slavery, and local history. Mytheli Sreenivas is Associate Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Her book, Wives, Widows , and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India (2008), was awarded the Joseph Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences from the American Institute of Indian Studies. Related essays have appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, the Journal of Asian Studies, and Feminist Studies. Her current research focuses on the cultural and political economy of reproduction in modern South Asia. Ulrike Strasser is Associate Professor of History and Director of European Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her monograph State of Virginity : Politics, Religion, and Gender in a German Catholic Polity won the award for “Best Book Published in 2004” from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, and was honored as finalist for “Das Historische Buch, 2004” in Germany. Strasser is also a coeditor, with M. J. Maynes, Ann Waltner, and Birgitte Soland, of Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History (1996). She is currently writing a transnational history on the role of early modern German Jesuits in shaping European images of the Pacific. Heidi Tinsman is Associate Professor of History at the University of California , Irvine and author of Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, 262 << About the Contributors Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973 (2002) and coeditor with Sandhya Shukla of Imaging Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (2007). She is currently finishing a book on grapes and consumer culture in Cold War Chile and the United States. Cristina Zaccarini is Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Asian Studies Program at Adelphi University in New York. She is the author of several publications, including The Sino-American Friendship as Tradition and Challenge: Dr. Ailie Gale in China, 1908–1950 (2001), and “Chinese Nationalism and Christian Womanhood in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Story of Mary Kao (Kao Meiyu),” in Pioneer Chinese Christian Women: Gender, Christianity, and Social Mobility, ed. Jessie Lutz (2010). ...

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