Contributors

Contributors IDA BLOM is professor of history at the University of Bergen, Norway, and is president of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. Her research focuses on women and reproduction, Ufe-cycle studies , and women in poUtics. Her books include Synd eller sund fornuft? Barnebegrensning i Norge c. 1890 - c. 1930 (1980), and 'Den haarde Dyst'. Fedsler og fedselshjelp gjenom 150 âr (1988). She has pubUshed a number of articles in Norwegian and international journals on various aspects of women's history. SCOTT E. CASPER is assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and held a feUowship at the American Antiquarian Society in 1990. He is currently working on a book on biography and culture in the nineteenth-century United States. SONDRA R. HERMAN is affiUated with the Institute for Historical Study, San Francisco. Her earner works include Eleven Against War: Studies in American Internationalism 1898-1921 (1969), and "Feminists, SodaUsts and the Genesis of the Swedish WeUare State 1919-1945," in Women and the Western Tradition (1990). During the writing of this article she was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University. She is currently writing a book about Alva Myrdal's relations with the United States. DARLENE CLARK HIÑE is John A. Hannah professor of American history at Michigan State University. She has edited and written widely on African -American history, particularly on African-American women in the nursing profession and in the Midwest. Her books include When the Truth is Told: Black Women's Culture and Community in Indiana, 1875-1959 (1981), Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (1979), and Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 (1989). Hine is currently the editor of the 16-volume series, Black Women in United States History: From Colonial Times to the Present. She is presently working on a study of African Americans in the Great Depression and World War II. DIANE KIRKBY is a lecturer in history at La Trobe University in Melbourne, AustraUa, where she teaches feminist sodal history. She is the author of Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice (1991) and is currently researching 1992 Contributors 245 the use of photographic texts as historical sources for the study of gender at work. JANE MCDERMID teaches contemporary European history at La Sainte Union College of Higher Education, Southampton, England. Her dissertation (Glasgow University) is on the evolution of Soviet attitudes toward women and the famüy. She has published articles on Russian women in Scottish Slavonic Review, Irish Slavic Studies, and in Women's Work and the Family Economy, edited by Pat Hudson and W. R. Lee (1990). She is currently researching the education of working-class girls in nineteenth-century Scotland. JO Ann McNAMARA is professor of history at Hunter CoUege, City University of New York. She has written numerous artides on women in the middle ages, particularly monastic women and female saints and has published two books on that subject, A New Song: Celibate Women in the First Three Christian Centuries (1983), and Sainted Women of the Dark Ages (1992) with John E. Halborg and Gordon Whatley). She is now engaged in a history of CathoUc nuns over two mülenia. ANN-SOFIE OHLANDER is assodate professor of history at the University of Uppsala (Sweden). Her English-language pubücations indude More Children of Better Quality? Aspects of Swedish Population Policy in the 1930s (1980) under the name Kalvemark; "Suidde in Sweden—ASodal History," in Death The Public and Private Spheres (1986); and "The Invisible Child? The Struggle for a Sodal Democratic Famüy PoUcy in Sweden, 1900-196Os," in Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 1880s-1950s, edited by Gisela Bock and Pat Thane (1991). She conducts the women's history seminar at Uppsala University. JANE L. PARPART is professor of history, women's studies, and international development studies at Dalhousie University in Hatifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She has written extensively on labor and gender in Africa and is co-editor...