Contributors

Contributors BARBARA WATSON ANDAYA is professor in the Asian Studies program at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, and acquisitions editor of the SHAPS Library of Translations and Library of Asian Studies. She obtained a Ph.D. at CorneU University in 1975, speciatizing in Southeast Asian history. She has taught at the University of Malaya, the AustraUan National University , the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and has held a visiting position at CorneU University. Her research concentrates on Malaysia and western Indonesia in the period 1500-1800. She is currently working on a history of women in premodern Southeast Asia. SUSAN CAHN is assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo where she teaches courses on U.S. women's history, social history, and the history of sexuaUty. She has authored a feminist history of women's sports called Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women's Sport (1994). Her current research is a historical study of adolescent girls and sexuaUty in the American South. LUCY CHESSER is a doctoral candidate in the history department at La Trobe University, Melbourne, AustraUa. Her dissertation is on the meanings of cross-dressing in AustraUa between 1850 and 1920. She has an interest in lesbian history and is the author of an article on 1970s nonpolitical lesbian organizations in Melbourne which appears in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation. NAN ENSTAD is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carotina at Greensboro. Her book on U.S. working-class women, popular culture, and labor potitics at the turn of the twentieth century wiU be published by Columbia University Press (1999). ESTELLE B. FREEDMAN is professor of history and chair of the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford University. She is the author of Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition (1996), Their Sisters ' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 (1981), and, with John D'EmUio, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (rev. ed., 1997). MARGARET GIBSON is an independent scholar tiving in Palo Alto, CaUfornia . She obtained a B.A. from Harvard University in history and sci- © 1998 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 9 No. 4 (Winter) ____ 1998 Contributors 233 ence, and is currently researching images of the lesbian body in American medical titerature from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ANN GOLDBERG is assistant professor of modern European and women's history at the University of California, Riverside. She has recently completed a book entitled Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness in Germany, 1815-1849 (forthcoming, 1998). GAIL HERSHATTER is professor of history and co-director of the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Catifornia, Santa Cruz. Her most recent book is Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in TwentiethCentury Shanghai (1997). She is coeditor of Engendering China: Women, Culture , and the State (1994) and Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain (1996). She is also associate director of the 1995 documentary "Gate of Heavenly Peace." ELIZABETH QUAY HUTCHISON is assistant professor of history at Colby CoUege, where she teaches courses on retigion, gender, and Latin American studies. Her previous pubUcations include research on human rights organizations under ChUe's mUitary dictatorship and a coedited volume of studies in Chilean gender history, Disciplina y desacato. Construcción de identidad en Chile, siglos XIXyXX. She is currently preparing for publication a book manuscript, "Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Pontics in Urban ChUe, 1887-1927." PHILIPPA LEVLNE is professor of history at the University of Southern Catifornia and author of books on Victorian British feminism and on the making of the English historical profession. She is completing a manuscript on venereal disease and prostitution in the British Empire. JOANNE MEYEROWITZ teaches U.S. history at the University of Cincinnati . She is the author of Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 (1988) and the editor of Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (1994). She is currently writing a book on Christine Jorgensen and the history of transsexuatity in the United States. VICTORIA THOMPSON is assistant professor of history at Xavier University...