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Amy Allen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College. She is author of The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity (1999) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (2008). (Amy.R.Allen@Dartmouth.EDU)

Christine Battersby is Reader Emerita in Philosophy and Associate Fellow in the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. She is author of The Sublime, Terror, and Human Difference (2007); Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics (1989); The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity (1998); coeditor of Going Australian, a special issue of Hypatia (2000), and a past editor of Women’s Philosophy Review. (C.Battersby@warwick.ac.uk)

Christina M. Bellon is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Practical and Professional Ethics at California State University, Sacramento. Her teaching and research interests lie broadly in practical and theoretical ethics, with special interest in human rights, rights theories, and theories of justice. Her current projects include: an examination of the development of children’s rights in the human rights tradition and their potential to function as cross-cultural standards of justice for children; the application of human rights theory to justify appeals to humanitarian violations as a limiting factor on nation state sovereignty; and a contextual and relational analysis of rights. (bellon@csus.edu)

Debra Bergoffen is Professor of Philosophy and affiliated with the Women’s Studies and Cultural Studies programs at George Mason University. She is author of The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities (1997) and editor of several anthologies. Her most recent essays include “How Rape Became a Crime Against Humanity: History of an Error” (in Modernity and the Problem of Evil, ed. Alan D. Schrift), “Failed Friendship, Forgotten Genealogies: Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray” (Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française), and “From Genocide to Justice: Women’s Bodies as Legal Writing Pads” (Feminist Studies). (dbergoff@gmu.edu) [End Page 236]

Idil Boran is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University. Her research interests are in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy and public policy, applied ethics, and business ethics. (iboran@yorku.ca)

Cheshire Calhoun is Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. She works in the areas of moral psychology, ethics, and feminist and gay/lesbian philosophy. She is author of Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet (2002), and editor of Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers (2004). (Cheshire.Calhoun@asu.edu)

Lisa Campo-Engelstein received a Master’s degree in philosophy from Michigan State University in 2005. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at MSU, working on a dissertation on contraception, trust, and responsibility. (leahtamar@comcast.net)

Neus Torbisco Casals is a Senior Lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, where she teaches courses relating to legal and political theory and human rights. Since 2007, she has been an academic visitor at the Law Department of the London School of Economics and the Political Sciences, a position that ends in 2009. Torbisco Casals completed her doctorate in law at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, in 2000, and has held visiting positions at Ottawa and Queen’s University, Canada, and more recently, New York University. She is interested in legal and political philosophy generally, as well as in constitutional theory and human rights. Torbisco Casals has published several articles and chapters, mainly on issues related to cultural rights, immigrants integration and European citizenship, and has presented papers at conferences in Europe and America. She is author of Group Rights as Human Rights: A Liberal Approach to Multiculturalism (2006). (neus.torbisco@upf.edu)

Marilyn Friedman teaches philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis and is also Research Professor of Social Justice at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University/Australian National University. She has published widely in feminist theory, ethics, and political philosophy. Her most recent books are Autonomy, Gender, Politics (2003) and the edited collection Women...

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