Contributors
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Leslie Tuttle is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. She is the author of Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France (Oxford University Press, 2010). She is currently working on the dream culture of early modern France, including among religious women.
Marie A. Kelleher is an associate professor of history at California State University, Long Beach. She has published articles on medieval law, clerical concubinage, and procedural law and the testimony of children in the Middle Ages. Her book on gender and legal culture in medieval Spain is forthcoming with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Rachel Jean-Baptiste is an assistant professor of African history at the University of Chicago. She has published articles in the Journal of African History, Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, and forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Sexuality. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled A Free Town: Marriage and Sex in Twentieth Century Libreville, Gabon.
Whitney Strub is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University, Newark. His work can be found in such places as the Journal of the History of Sexuality, American Quarterly, and Bad Subjects, and his book, Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Obscenity and Pornography in the Postwar United States, is forthcoming shortly from Columbia University Press.
Monika Edgren is professor of Gender Studies at Malmö University. She received her PhD in history from the University of Lund. Her main areas of research are labor history and national identity constructions. She has also done research on aspects of place/space and sexual violence. Her most recent book, Hem tar plats. Ett feministiskt perspektiv på flyttandets politik I 1970-talets sociala rapportböcker (2009; Home takes place. A feminist perspective on the politics of movement in 1970s social report books) is about the meaning of "home" in the context of 1970s Swedish internal migration.
Dana Rabin teaches British and global history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her book, Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave, 2004), sets legal sources within a [End Page 212] cultural context to reveal relationships between emotion, responsibility, gender, and citizenship. Her current project explores British anxieties about empire and difference that coalesced around legal events in the eighteenth century.
Mary Ann Fay received her PhD in the History of the Middle East from Georgetown University in 1993. She is an associate professor of history at Morgan State University. Previously she taught at the American University of Sharjah (U.A.E.) and was the founding director of the Arab Studies Program at American University (Washington, DC). She teaches courses on Islamic Civilization, the modern Middle East, the social and cultural history of the region, and women's history. Her research and writing are focused on women in early modern Egypt and most recently, in the U.A.E. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Journal of Women's History as well as several collections on women and the family, including the most recent, "International Feminism and the Women's Movement in Egypt, 1904–1923: A Reappraisal of Categories and Legacies" in Family in the Middle East: Ideational Change in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia (Routledge, 2008). She is the editor of Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East (Palgrave, 2001) and is completing work on a monograph entitled Unveiling the Harem: Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Egypt (under contract with Syracuse University Press).
Ann Waltner is professor of history at the University of Minnesota.
Carolyn Strange, a specialist in the history of gender and criminal justice, has published widely in Canadian history, as well as Australian and U.S. history. She is the author of Toronto's Girl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880–1930, and co-author of True Crime, True North: The Golden Age of Canadian True Crime Magazines. Her next book explores the history of family, violence, and honor in the nineteenth-century United States through an 1873 patricide case. She is currently a...
