Contributors
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Alison Bashford lectures in gender studies at the University of Sydney. Her book, Purity and Polution: Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine (St. Martin's Press) was published in 1998. Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies, coedited with Claire Hooker, is forthcoming with Routledge. She currently is completing her third book, "The Biopolitics of a Nation: Gender, Race, and Australian Public Health." <Alison.Bashford@genderstudies.usyd.edu.au>
Stacy Lorraine Braukman is assistant editor of volume five of Notable American Women (Harvard University Press, forthcoming). <slbraukm@email.unc.edu>
Maria Bucur is John W. Hill Assistant Professor in Eastern European history at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has published several essays on women and gender roles in twentieth-century Romania, among them "In Praise of Wellborn Mothers: On Eugenics and Gender Roles in Interwar Romania," East European Politics and Societies 9, no. 1 (1995): 123- 42. Bucur has incorporated her interest in gender issues in a book-length manuscript entitled "The Biopolitical State: The Culture of Eugenics in Interwar Romania." Her research also extends into the topic of memory and history, especially in relation to the two world wars. <mbucur@indiana.edu>
Gay L. Gullickson is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is author of Spinners and Weavers of Auffay (1986) and Unruly Women of Paris. She currently is working on a study of British suffragettes as secular martyrs. <gg17@umail.umd.edu>
Margaret L. King is professor of history at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She has published four books on different aspects of the culture of Renaissance Italy, the most recent being The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (1994). She recently authored a western civilization textbook, Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History (2000). <MargKing@worldnet.att.net>
Ralph Leck teaches in the Department of History, Women's Studies Program, and Honors Program at Indiana State University. His book, Georg Simmel and Avant-Garde Sociology: The Birth of Modernity, 1880-1920 is forthcoming from Humanity Books. He currently is writing a monograph on [End Page 236] philosopher/activist Helene Stöcker and the origins of radical feminism in Germany. <hileck@ruby.indstate.edu>
Silvia Mantini is a researcher in modern history at the Università degli Studi-L'Aquila in Italy. She earned her doctorate from the Università di Pisa and held a postdoctoral grant from the Università di Milano. Her previous publications include works on the history of the city and ceremonials in the Renaissance, Inquisition and witchcraft, and women and the Ottoman Empire (the harem and women travelers in the East). <mantini@tiscalinet.it>
Heather Lee Miller is a doctoral candidate in women's history at the Ohio State University. She currently is working on her dissertation, tentatively titled "A Historical Sisterhood at the Margins of Women's Sexuality? Representations and Realities of Lesbians and Prostitutes in the United States, 1840-1940." <miller.1438@osu.edu>
Molly McGarry is visiting assistant professor at Sarah Lawrence College. She is coauthor of Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America (1998), and is completing a book manuscript entitled "Haunting Reason: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America." <MMcGarry@aol.com>
Line Nyhagen Predelli earned her doctorate in sociology in 1998 from the University of Southern California with the dissertation, "Contested Patriarchy and Missionary Feminism: The Norwegian Missionary Society in Nineteenth-Century Norway and Madagascar." She currently is working at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, where she is involved in projects related to gender, religion and migration, and evaluation research. <Line.n.predelli@nibr.no>
Michael A. Ross is assistant professor of history at Loyola University, New Orleans. <maross1@loyno.edu>
Marian J. Rubchak is associate professor of history at Valparaiso University. She has contributed numerous articles and reviews to scholarly journals in the United States, Canada, England, Ukraine, and Sweden. Among them are comparative studies of Ukranian and Russian women, the Ukranian cult of motherhood, and the status of feminism in Ukraine. Her annotated translation of S.M. Soloviev's History of Russia from Earliest Times (Academic International Press) is scheduled for publication in 2000. In 1997, she was named Valparaiso University Research Professor, and [End...
