Contributors

COISTTRIBUTORS EMILY K. ABEL is associate professor in the UCLA School of Pubtic Health. Her recent pubUcations are Who Cares for the Elderly: Public Policy and the Experiences of Adult Daughters (1991) and Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives (1990), co-edited with Margaret K. Nelson. She is currently writing a history of women's care for sick and disabled family members in the United States since 1800. NORMA BASCH is a member of the Department of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of In the Eyes of the Law: Women, Marriage, and Property in Nineteenth-Century New York (1982) and is presently working on a book entitled Framing American Divorce: Rules, Mediations, and Representations , 1770-1870. KATHLEEN CANNING is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan where she has been teaching modern German history and the history of European women and gender since 1988. She is currently completing her book manuscript on gender and the poUtics of work in the textile industry of Wuhehrdne and Weimar Germany. Her recent artides include: "Gender and the PoUtics of Class Formation: Rethinking German Labor History," in the American Historical Review (June 1992), and "Gender and the Culture of Work, Ideology and Identity in the World Behind the MiU Gate," in Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany. New Perspectives (1992). ANNA CLARK teaches at the University of North Carotina at Charlotte and is the author of several articles on British working-class history. Her forthcoming book wiU be entitled T7ie Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class. DENNIS DESUPPE is a doctoral student in history at the University of Iowa. His essay is part of his dissertation, " "Rights, Not Roses': Women, Industrial Unions, and the American Law, 1945-80." He has published in the Annals of Iowa and the Records of the American Catholic Historical Society. JEAN V. MATTHEWS is professor of history at the University of Western Ontario where she teaches U.S. and women's history. She is the author of Rufus Choate: The Law and Civic Virtue (1980) and Toward a New Society: American Thought and Culture, 1800-1830 (1991). REBECCA ROGERS recdved her Ph.D. at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sdences Sociales in Paris. She is an assistant professor of history at the 206 Journal of Women's History Spring University of Iowa where she teaches European women's history and modern French history. She has published a book in French, entitled Les demoiselles de la Légion d'honneur (1992), concerning the education of girls in France in the nineteenth century. SONYA ROSE is professor of history and sodology at the University of Midtigan. She previously taught at Colby CoUege in WaterviUe, Maine. She is the author of Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century England (1992). She is currently doing research on gender, race, and national identity, and the U.S. "occupation" of Britain in World War Π, and is co-editing a book with Laura Frader entitled Gender and Working Class Formation in Modern Europe. MARCIA R. SAWYER is an assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. She is currently a feUow at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research and a visiting assistant professor in the AfroAmerican Studies Department at Harvard University. She is completing a manuscript that focuses on the nineteenth-century Native American, African -American, and Anglo-American farming community in Cass County, Michigan. MANUELA THURNER is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Program at Yale University. Her main research interests are in nindeenth-cenrury U.S. sodal and women's history. She is currently engaged in a dissertation project comparing white and free black women's associational activities in the North before the QvU War. MARIANA VALVERDE teaches sodal theory and feminist issues in the sodology department at York University. Her latest books are The Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1880s-1920s (1991) and, edited with F. Iacovetta, Gender Conflicts: New Essays in Women's History (1992). ...