Contributors
- Contributors
Nahla Abdo is an Arab feminist activist and a professor of sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She has written extensively on women, racism, nationalism, and the state in the Middle East, with a special focus on Palestinian women. Her publications include Al-nisaa' fi Isreel: al-dawla wal-muwatana (Women in Israel: State and Citizenship) (MADAR [The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies], 2009); Women and Poverty in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Some Conceptual and Methodological Notes (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 2007); Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges (coedited with Shahrzad Mojab; Bilgi University Press, 2004); and Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (coedited with Ronit Lentin; Berghahn Books, 2002).
C. S. Adcock is an assistant professor of South Asian studies and religious studies in the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis.
Himani Bannerji is a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University and teaches in the areas of antiracist feminism, Marxist cultural theories, gender, colonialism, and imperialism. Her publications include Projects of Hegemony and Projects of Knowledge: Essays on Nationalism, Gender, Ethnicity, and Ideology (forthcoming from Orient Longman); Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism (coedited and coauthored with Shahrzad Mojab and Judith Whitehead; University of Toronto Press, 2001); Inventing Subjects: Studies in Hegemony, Patriarchy, and Colonialism (Anthem, 2001); and The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and Gender (Canadian Scholars' Press, 2000). She is currently working on a book on Rabindranath Tagore, decolonization, and modernity.
Maliha Chishti teaches in the Department of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada. She is a gender consultant, specializing in women and postconflict peace building and reconstruction.
Arlene Dallalfar is an associate professor of sociology and women's studies at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She teaches in the Department of Social Sciences in Lesley College and in the Intercultural Relations Program in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences. Her publication and research interests are in immigration and diaspora studies, as well as gender, work, and family studies.
Hagar Kotef is a postdoctorate fellow in the Society of Fellows, Columbia University. Among her publications are essays in Signs, War and Terror: Feminist Perspectives, and Theory, Culture, and Society.
Corliss Lentz is an associate professor of political science at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, where she teaches political science and public administration. She studies and teaches domestic and international education and social and health policies. She is a 2009-10 Fulbright Scholarship recipient for a lecturing/research position at the University of Zambia.
Margaret Little is an antipoverty activist and academic whose focus is single mothers on welfare, welfare/workfare reform, and retraining. She is jointly appointed to women's studies and political studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Her publications include If I Had a Hammer: Retraining That Really Works (University of British Columbia Press, 2005) and the award-winning No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit: The Moral Regulation of Single Mothers in Ontario, 1920-1997 (Oxford University Press, 1998). Her coauthored book Precarious Lives: Abused Women's Experiences of the Canadian State is forthcoming from the University of British Columbia Press.
Lynne Marks teaches in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia. [End Page 324]
Shahrzad Mojab is an academic-activist and the editor of Women, War, Violence, and Learning (Routledge, 2010) and Women of a Non-state Nation: The Kurds (Mazda, 2001). She coedited Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism (University of Toronto Press, 2001) and Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges (Bilgi University Press, 2004) and also produced two documentaries, Samjana: Memoirs and Resistance (2007) and Dancing for Change: The Rebel Women of Kurdistan (2010).
You-me Park is an assistant professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University. She coedited The Postcolonial Jane Austen (Routledge, 2000) and a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies on U.S. neoimperialism (2004). She is presently completing a book-length study titled "War...
