Notes on Contributors

Anne Caldwell is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Louisville. Her research focuses on the intersections of contemporary political theory and feminist theory. Currently she is investigating the ways the development of the modern Western state is indebted to new knowledges about and practices of sexual difference. (Aicald01@athena.louisville.edu)

Vincent Colapietro is a Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. His principal area of historical research is American pragmatism; and the main sites of his systematic interest include semiotics, psychoanalysis, social philosophy, and literary theory. Along with Peirces Approach to the Self (1989), "The vanishing subject of contemporary discourse" (1990), "Purpose, power, and agency" (1992), and "Robust Realism and Real Externality" (2002) are among his most important publications. (vxc5@psu.edu)

Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her previous studies in this field were completed at the University of Bologna in Italy. Subsequently, she has continued to work and write, both in English and Italian, in her chosen area. Her most recently published book is The Future of Art: An Aesthetics of the New and the Sublime (1999). She has also published philosophical aphorisms and her interests are mainly devoted to continental philosophy, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. (Marcellatarozzi@cs.com)

Karen Green is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches, among other things, courses on feminism and Sartre. She is the author of The Woman of Reason: Feminism, Humanism and Political Thought (1995), and Dummett: Philosophy of Language (2001). She has published numerous articles in philosophical and feminist journals. Currently she is working on the history of womens political thought with particular reference to Christine de Pizan. (Karen.Green@arts.monash.edu.au)

Alison M. Jaggar is Professor of Philosophy and Womens Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her books include: Feminist Frameworks, coedited with Paula Rothenberg, (1993); Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983); Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Ethics (1994); and The Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy, coedited with Iris M. Young, (1998). Currently, she is working on Sex, Truth and Power: A Feminist Theory of Moral Justification. Jaggar was a founding member of the Society for Women in Philosophy and is past chair of the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women. She works with a number of feminist organizations and sees feminist scholarship as inseparable from feminist activism. (Jaggar@spot.colorado.edu)

Cynthia Kaufman is the Chair of Womens Studies at De Anza College, where she also teaches Philosophy. She has been a member of the Socialist Review editorial collective since 1993. Presently, she is hard at work on a book tentatively entitled Thinking Left: Radical Theory for Understanding and Challenging Oppression. A dedicated activist, she is the faculty advisor to Students for Justice, a six-campus, multi-issue student organization. (cckaufman@earthlink.net)

Nancy S. Love is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Speech Vommunication at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity (1986, 1996). Her articles and chapters appear in Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: German Political and Social Thought from Nietzsche to Habermas, ed. John McCormick (forthcoming); The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, ed. Stephen K. White (1995); and Theory & Event, Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, New German Critique, Polity, and Women and Politics. Professor Love is currently writing a book entitled Musical Democracy. (NSL1@psu.edu)

Rita Manning is a Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University. She is the author of Speaking from the Heart: A Feminist Perspective on Ethics (1992), and the coeditor (with Rene Trujillo) of Social Justice in a Diverse Society (1996). In addition, she has published numerous articles on a wide range of topics. (manningr@ix.netcom.com)

Joshua Price is on the faculty of the Division of Human Development at the State University of New York at Binghamton. For ten years he has been a staff member of the Escuela Popular Norteña, a center for popular education located in Valdez, New...