About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Meena Alexander, born in Allahabad, India, is considered one of the foremost poets of her generation. She has published six volumes of poetry, including the Quickly Changing River (2008). The volume of essays Poetics of Dislocation appeared in 2009 in the Michigan Poets on Poetry Series. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of NewYork.
Carol Bailey is an assistant professor of Postcolonial Literatures at Keene State College. Her research interests include Postcolonial, Gender, and Performance Studies. Carol's published articles include "Performing 'Difference': Reading Gossip in Olive Senior's Short Stories" in Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean (2008), and "Looking In: Louise Bennett's Pioneering Caribbean Postcolonial Discourse." Journal of West Indian Literature (2009).
Blanche Wiesen Cook (see p. 66)
Jane Sherron De Hart is professor emerita of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Co-author of Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA and winner of the American Political Science Association's Victoria Shuck Award (1991), she specializes in twentieth-century issues of gender, politics, and policy in the U.S. She is currently completing a study of the pioneering feminist advocacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Judith Ezekiel, currently Women's Studies professor in residence at Wright State University, is associate professor at the Université de Toulouse le Mirail. In addition to her book Feminism in the Heartland, she has published on the U.S. and French women's movements, comparative race and ethnicities, and Franco-American (mis)representations in journals such as Les Temps Modernes, Feminist Studies, and Nouvelles Questions Feministes.
Marcia M. Gallo is assistant professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her first book, Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement (2006), won the 2006 Lambda Literary award for nonfiction. Gallo is now working on a book about Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, who was murdered in Queens, [End Page 198] New York in 1964 and became an international symbol of urban apathy, the "bystander syndrome," and the failure of community.
Paula J. Giddings is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Afro-American Studies at Smith College and the editor of Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. She is the author of four books, including When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America; In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement; Burning All Illusions: Writings from the Nation on Race, 1866–2002; and her most recent work, IDA, A Sword among Lions, which won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians, among other honors.
Linda Kerber is the May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of History, and Lecturer in the College of Law at the University of Iowa. She served as President of the American Historical Association in 2006. Among her books are No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (1998) and Women of the Republic (1980). She is co-editor of Women's America: Refocusing the Past (7th edition, 2011) which includes a selection from Blanche Cook's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Ming Smith is a native of Detroit and now lives and works in New York City. She holds a B.S. degree from Howard University and has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. Ming's work is represented in a number of public, corporate and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, and the AT&T Corporation.
Kimala Price is an assistant professor of women's studies at San Diego State University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science and a graduate certificate in women's studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Shoba Sharad Rajgopal has several years of teaching experience in...
