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Elizabeth Colwill is associate professor of history at San Diego State University. Her published work concerns various aspects of political culture during the revolutionary period, including political pornography, female authorship, and shifting conceptions of gender and race in France and Saint-Domingue. She currently is working on a book manuscript entitled "Sex, Savagery, and Slavery in the French and Haitian Revolutions." <colwill@mail.sdsu.edu>

Jenrose Fitzgerald received master's degrees in women's studies in 1998 and in comparative studies in 2000 from The Ohio State University. She currently is working toward a Ph.D. in science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests include U.S. welfare policy research methods, development economics, and the racialized, gendered, and socioeconomic biases imbedded in mainstream neoclassical and institutionalist economic thought.<jenrosedawn@hotmail.com>

Dáša Frančiková is an independent scholar in Prague, Czech Republic, where she has researched nineteenth-century Czech women's history. Her current work focuses on types and characteristics of relationships between women in early-nineteenth-century Bohemia. <dasenkaf@hotmail.com>

Nancy Gabin is associate professor of history at Purdue University, where she teaches U. S. women's and labor history. The author of Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935-1975 (1990), she is completing a one-volume history of women in Indiana and developing a study of women, work, and the political economy of gender in the twentieth-century Midwest. <ngabin@purdue.edu>

Elizabeth D. Heineman received her Ph. D. from the University of North Carolina and is currently associate professor of history at the University of Iowa. She is author of What Difference Does a Husband Make? Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany (1999) as well as articles in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently examining the history of women and sexuality in twentieth-century Germany via the life and career of Luftwaffe pilot and sex industry magnate Beate Uhse Rotermund. <lisa-heineman@uiowa.edu> [End Page 246]

Susan Kellogg is associate professor of history at the University of Houston. Her book, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700 (1995), focused on gender as an important aspect of cultural change in sixteenth-century Mexico. She currently is working on two research projects: one deals with women of color in the Mexico City region between 1650 and 1750, the other is a comparative study of indigenous women throughout Latin America from the prehispanic period to the modern era. <histy@jetson.uh.edu>

Karin Lützen is associate professor of history at Roskilde University in Denmark. In 1986, she published Hvad hjertet begaerer: Kvinders kaerlighed til kvinder, 1825-1985 (What the Heart Desires: Love Between Women, 1825-1985). She also has published extensively on women's history in the nineteenth century, including such topics as love between women, women in philanthropy and moral reform, women as deviants, and prostitution. <lutz@ruc.dk>

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>

Karen Mead received a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has worked as a lecturer there and as a Mellon Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. She currently is working on a book about women and nationalism. <kmead@abc-clio.com>

Kanchana Natarajan is reader of classical Indian philosophy at Delhi University in India. She was a Commonwealth postdoctoral fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London from 1998 to 1999. She currently is working on a postdoctoral project entitled "Construction of Female Sexuality in Ancient India Based on Orthodox Philosophical Texts." <kanchana@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>

Fiona Paisley is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at Australian National University. She has written numerous articles on the political identity of settler-colonial women and their claims to modernity through advocating indigenous women's rights, particularly in the interwar period. Her book, Loving Protection...

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