Contributors

CONTIRIBUTORS MARILYN BOOTH is an Independent Scholar in modern Arabic Uterature. She has just rdocated from Cairo to the U.S. and is now a Visiting Scholar at the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at ChampaignUrbana . She has authored Bayram al-Tunisi's Egypt: Social Criticism and Narrative Strategies (1990) and artides on dialed poetry, censorship and literature, and women's prison writings in the Arab world. Among her translations are Nawal el Saadawi's Memoirs from the Women's Prison (1986) and My Grandmother's Cactus: Stories by Egyptian Women (1991). She is currently working on women's biography in Egypt. EUZABETH F. DEFEIS is a Professor of Constitutional Law and International Law and former Dean of Seton HaU University School of Law. She has lectured abroad as a Fulbright Scholar and in the Volspeaker Program of the United States Information Agency in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. She has conduded numerous law-related television programs and co-produced the Women and the Law television series. Among her most recent pubUcations are Women's Legal Rights: International Convenants—An Alternative to ERA? and Justice William J. Brennan Jr.: A Perspective. LUCY ELDERSVELD MURPHY has taught U.S. history at the CoUege of DuPage in Glen EUyn, Illinois, since 1984. She has degrees from the University of Michigan and Northern Illinois University and is presently pursuing a doctorate in history at the latter institution. Her current interests indude the relationships of gender, race, and ethnidty to economic activity and belief in the Midwest bdore 1830. JANAKI NAIR is currently completing her dissertation at Syracuse University on aspects of Indian working dass history with specific reference to Bangalore, 1900-1947. Her article entitled, "Uncovering the Zenana: Visions of Indian Womanhood in Englishwomen's Writings," appeared in the JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY (Spring 1990). RENATA SIEMIENSKA is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology of the Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland. Recently, her research and publications have centered on cross-cultural analyses of value systems of different populations and local leaders in particular, and also on women's partidpation in public Ufe. She is the author of a number of artides and an editor of books concerning the above issues. Her latest books are Gender— Profession—Politics: Women in Public Life in Poland (Warsaw: Institute of Sodology, 1990) and Gender Inequality: A Comparative Study of Discrimination and Participation with Mino VianeUo, et al. (Newbury Park, CaI.: Sage Press, 1990). 1991 Contributors 177 PEGGY A. SIMPSON holds the RUey Chair as a Journalist-in-Residence at Indiana University's School of Journalism in Bloomington, Indiana. Her three decades of reporting and editing induded 15 years with the Associated Press in Texas and Washington, DC; and, in 1988-89, directing a Washington poUtical bureau for Ms. Magazine. She spent three months in Eastern Europe in the summer of 1990 and returned to Berlin and Warsaw for two weeks of additional interviews in the faU of 1990. She has written a chapter on magazines in Eastern Europe for an upcoming book by the University of Georgia on the media in that part of the world. JUDITH WELLMAN is a Professor of History and Women's Studies at the State University of New York at Oswego. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1974 and has written extensively on reform movements in the burned-over district of upstate New York. In 1982, she became the first historian for the new Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca FaUs, New York. ...