Contributors

Contributors EMILY K. ABEL is professor of health services and women's studies at UCLA. Her recent books include Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives, coedited with Margaret K. Nelson (1990), and Who Cares for the Elderly ? Public Policy and the Experiences of Adult Daughters (1991). She currently is writing a history of women's care for sick and disabled relatives in the United States from 1850 to 1940. LISA M. BITEL is associate professor of medieval history and women's studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland (1996), and JsZe of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland (1990). At present, she is writing a synoptic history of women in medieval Europe for Cambridge University Press. NANCY D. CAMPBELL is assistant professor of women's studies and teaches courses on gender and public policy at The Ohio State University. She currently is writing a book manuscript entitled "Governing Mentalities : Women, Illicit Drug Poticy, and the Feminist Sociology of Knowledge." PEGGY SPITZER CHRISTOFF is an independent China scholar. Most recently , she has conducted research on the history of Chicago's Chinatown. Christoff regularly reviews books on Chinese politics and Sino-American relations for Library Journal. She lives Ui Oak Park, Illinois. MARY ANN FAY is visiting assistant professor of history at the American University of Sharjah (1998-1999) and assistant professor of history at the Virginia Military Institute. Her articles include "The Ties that Bound: Women and Households in Eighteenth-Century Egypt," in Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History (ed. Amira Sonbol, 1996), and "Women and Waqf: Towards a Reconsideration of Women's Place in the Mamluk Household," in International Journal of Middle East Studies (February 1997). She is editor of Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East (forthcoming, St. Martin's Press). CECILY FORDE-JONES is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology , Goldsmiths College, University of London. She currently is completing a thesis on white women and agency in the slave plantation societies of Barbados and North Carolina. Her research interests are colonial slave societies, gender, and race. © 1998 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 10 No. 3 (Autumn) 236 Journal of Women's History Autumn DONNA J. GUY is professor of history at the University of Arizona. Author of Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina (1991), and coeditor with Daniel Balderston of Sex and Sexuality in Latin America (1997), she has also authored many published articles. Her current research is on the history of state policies toward street children and orphans in Argentina and their impact on the construction of modern notions of mothering and fathering. ELLEN E. KITTELL is assistant professor of history at the University of Idaho, where she teaches medieval and early modern history. Her major research field is medieval Flanders. As a Fulbright scholar, Kittell researched and wrote From Ad Hoc to Routine (1991), an examination of the evolution of Flemish medieval bureaucracy. She currently is researching women in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Flanders and is the author of "Women and Guardianship in Medieval Flanders: A Reassessment," Journal of Social History (forthcoming). MARY BETH NORTON is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University. Her most recent book, Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996), examines the lives of women and men in the Anglo-American colonies prior to 1670. GEORGE ROBB is assistant professor of history at William Paterson University and author of White-Collar Crime in Modern England (1992). He currently is researching women in the eugenics movement and spousal murder cases in Victorian England. MARY LOUISE ROBERTS is associate professor of history at Stanford University. Her first book, Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927, won the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Award for the Best Book in Women's History, 1994. At present, she is working on a study of the fin-de-siècle "new woman" in France, including "La Divine," Sarah Bernhardt. ROBYN L. ROSEN earned her...