Contributors

Contributors ROWENA FOWLER is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Bristol, England. She has edited Robert Browning and Edward Lear and pubtished numerous articles on feminist criticism and on Victorian and modern literature. H. F. MCMAINS is Editor of the Organization of American Historians Newsletter. He is author of a number of articles on late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States history. FEDWA Malti-DOUGLAS is Professor and Director of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin, has pubtished extensively in English, French and Arabic on Arabic literature and Islamic civilization. Her books include Structures of Avarice: The Bukhala'in Medieval Arabic Literature (Leiden: E.J. BrUl, 1985); Blindness and Autobiography: alAyyatn of Taha Husayn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988); and Woman's Body, Woman's Word in Arabo-Islamic Discourse (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming). LOUISE NEWMAN is editor of a sourcebook, Men's Ideas/Women's Realities: Popular Science, 1875-1915 (New York: Pergamon, 1984), and is completing a dissertation entitled "Different but Equal: The Problem of Sexual Equality in the United States, 1870-1930" in the History Program at Brown University . She is teaching courses in African-American, Women's, and U.S. history and literature in the History & Literature Program at Harvard University. JUDITH NEWTON is Director of Women's Studies at U.C. Davis. She is the author of Women, Power, and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860 (1981; rpt. New York: Methuen, 1986), and the co-editor of Sex and Class in Women's History (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983) and of Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class, and Race in Literature and Culture (New York: Methuen, 1986). She has pubUshed several essays on "new historicism" and on the intersection of feminist literary and historical work and is working on a collection of essays having to do with feminism, Uterary criticism, and history. NELL IRVIN PAINTER is currently a Professor of History at Princeton University and Acting Diredor of Afro-American Studies. Her most recent publications are Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 (New York: Norton, 1987), and an introductory essay in Virgina Burr's T7ie Secref Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (Chapel HiU: University of North Carotina Press, 1990). At present she is working on sexuaUty, race, 175 Journal of Women's History Winter and class in the nineteenth-century American South as weU as a biography of Sojourner Truth. HAMMED SHAHIDIAN is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mülsaps College and writes in Persian and English on women, poUtics, and culture in Iran. He is currently working on a book on the formation of the "Woman's Question" in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979. NANCY SHOEMAKER is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Minnesota. She worked for a year on the American Indian Famüy History Projed at the Newberry Library and has published several (forthcoming) articles in American Indian famüy history. LISE VOGEL is the author of Different But Not Unequal: The Dilemma of Maternity Policy in the United States ONew Brunswick: Rutgers Umversity Press, forthcoming), and Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory ÛNTew Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1983). Her article "Debating Difference: Feminism, Pregnancy, and the Workplace" appeared in the Spring 1990 issue of Feminist Studies. An Assodate Professor of Sodology at Rider CoUege in New Jersey, she has been active in the women's movement since 1968. JOAN C. WILLIAMS is a Professor of Law at The American Umversity. She does interdisciplinary work that combines law, theory and women's history and has pubtished work in the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and other legal, phüosophical and historical books and journals, including NOMOS—Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. ...