Contributors

Contributors KATHLEEN BARRY is Associate Professor of Human Development at Pennsylvania State University and author of Susan B. Anthony, A Biography. She is the author of Female Sexual Slavery and serves as the director of the Coalition Against Traffic in Women, a United Nations Human Rights Nongovernmental Organization. SUSAN Punzel CONNER is Associate Professor of History at Central Michigan University. She has published numerous chapters and articles on French women. Her most recent publication is "Politics, Prostitution and the Pox in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1799," Journal of Social History 22, no. 4 (June 1989). IRENE DIAMOND teaches political science at the University of Oregon. Her most recent books are Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance, co-edited with Lee Quinby, and Reweaving the World: The Emergence of fcofeminism (forthcoming 1990), co-edited with Gloria Orenstein. She is currently working on a book entitled "Resisting the Logic of Control: Feminism, Fertility and the Living Earth." ELIZABETH FOX-GENOVESE is Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities and Director of Women's Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. THELMA JENNINGS is Professor Emeritus of American History at Middle Tennessee State University and author of TAf Nashville Convention: Southern Movement for Unity, 1848-1850. She is currently working on a book-length study of the African-American bondwomen's perception of the slave experience. LINDA K. KERBER is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Womf« of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America, Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America, and co-editor with Jane De Hart of Women's America: Refocusing the Past. LISA KUPPLER studied history and American Studies at the University of Tuebingen, FRG and completed her M.A. in American History at the University of Oregon. She studies women's perceptions of the Great Plains landscape and plans to return to Germany where she hopes to integrate ecofeminism into history programs. 278 JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY WINTER GERDA LERNER is Robinson-Edwards Professor of History, and WARF Senior Distinguished Research Professor at the University of WisconsinMadison . Author and editor of many works on women's history, including Black Women in White America and TAf Creation of Patriarchy, she is now completing the second volume of the latter work, "The Rise of Feminist Consciousness." KAREN OFFEN is an affiliated scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is currently working on a study of the woman question in Third Republic France. Her most recent publication is "Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14 (Autumn 1988). LOREN SCHWENINGER is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of James T. Rapier and Reconstruction and editor of From Tennessee Slave to St. Louis Entrepreneur: The Autobiography of James Thomas. His study of Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915 (forthcoming 1990) is being published by the University of Illinois Press. Sarah SLAVIN is Associate Professor of Political Science at Buffalo State College. She attended law school and her doctoral work included a cognate field in women's history. She is past editor of Women & Politics and past president of the Women's Caucus for Political Science and is currently co-chair of the Gay and Lesbian Caucus for Political Science. She is author of Plow Women Rather than Reapers and editor of several volumes, as well as co-author of TAf Subordinated Sex with Vern L. BuUough and Brenda Shelton. ...