Contributors

Contributors VICTORIA BISSELL BROWN is associate professor of history at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. She has done work on female socialization at the turn of the century, but currently is writing a biography on Jane Addams. She is the author of "Jane Addams, Progressivism, and Woman Suffrage," in One Woman, One Vote, ed. Marjorie Spruill Wheeler (New Sage Press, 1995), and has an article on Jane Addams and the Pullman Strike in a volume on the Pullman Strike forthcoming from University of Illinois Press. JOAN N. BURSTYN is professor of cultural foundations of education and of history and former dean of the school of education at Syracuse University . She also has served as president of the History of Education Society (1985-1986) and American Educational Studies Association (1995-1996). From 1981 until 1985, she was director of the women's studies program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus, and from its first issue in 1975 until 1980, she was an associate editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Published widely on the history of women's education and gender issues in education, her most recent publications include, as editor: Educating Tomorrow's Valuable Citizen (1996), and, as editor-in-chief: Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women (paperback edition, 1997). RUDOLF MICHEL DEKKER studied history at the University of Amsterdam, and teaches history at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. With Lotte van de Pol, he authored The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe (1989). He has written pubUshed guides to diaries, autobiographies, travel journals, and other egodocuments in Dutch archives. His most recent book is about childhood and children in egodocuments (Uit de schaduw in 't grote licht, 1995), of which an English translation will appear in 1999 (London: Macmillan). ANNE EPSTEIN, a doctoral candidate in European history at Indiana University, lives in Helsinki, Finland. She is completing her dissertation, entitled "Gender and Intellectual Culture in the French Third Republic, 1890-1914," and teaching history at the Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä. ©1998 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 10 No. 2 (Summer) 1998 Contributors 235 MARILYN (LYN) E. HEGARTY is a doctoral candidate at The Ohio State University. She is completing a dissertation entitled "Patriots, Prostitutes, Patriotutes: The MobUization and Control of Female Sexuality in the United States during World War II." SALLY MCMURRY is professor of history at Perm State University. She has authored two books, Transforming Rural Life: Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, 1820-1885 (1995), and Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America (1988), and is coeditor, with Annmarie Adams, of Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, volume 7 (1997). SONYA MICHEL teaches U.S. and comparative women's and gender history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Director of Women's Studies. She is a founding coeditor of the journal Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society, and author of the book Children's Interests/Mothers'Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy (Yale University Press, forthcoming). REBECCA OVERMYER-VELÕ ZQUEZ is a graduate student in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. BIRGITTE S0LAND, who received a cand.mag. degree from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota , teaches European women's history at The Ohio State University. She has coedited Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History (1996), and currently is completing a manuscript on the reconstruction of gender relations in Europe after World War I. LENA SOMMESTAD is assistant professor in economic history at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has authored articles and books in labor and women's history, including Fran mejerska till mejerist. En studie av mejeriyrkets maskuliniseringsprocess (From Dairymaids to Dairymen: A Study of the Masculinization Process in the Swedish Dairy Industry, 1850-1950) (1992). She currently is involved in research on the formation of the Swedish dualbreadwinner welfare state. DEBORAH A. SYMONDS currently is associate professor of history at Drake University, where she teaches European, early modern, women's, and world history. She is a graduate of Bennington College, Edinburgh University, and Binghamton University, and her central research is the capitalist transformation of Scotland. 236 Journal of Women...