Contributors

204 Contributors Contributors Sylvia Bashevkin is a professor of political science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Toeing the Lines: Won1en and Party Politics in English Canada (1985, 1993), True Patriot Love: The Politics of Canadian Natio11alisn1 (1991) and Wonzen on the Defensive: Living Tl1Touglz Conservative Tin1es (1998). Vanaja Dhruvarajan is a professor of sociology at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has done research in India and Canada and has published two books and several articles. She has served as Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair in Women's Studies at the Simon Fraser University in 1994-95 and as president of Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association in 1999-2000 and president of Canadian Wo1nen's Studies Association in 1986-87. Micheline de Seve isa professorof political science and head of the Institute de recherches et d'etudes fe1ninistes at l'Universite du Quebec ;l Montreal. She has written Pour u11 fen1i11isme libertaire (Boreal 1985) and L'ecJzappeevers /'Quest (Cidihca 1991) and is co-author of Malaises identitaires. changes fen1i11istes pour un Qutbecincertain (Remue-menage 1999). Her work on feminism or on nationalisn1 in Central Europe and in Quebec has been published in various chapters of books or journals such as Atlantis, Calziers de recherche sociologique , International Journal of Canadian Studies, Politique et soci€t€ and Rec11erclles f€n1i11istes. Micheline Dumont taught history at l'Universite de Sherbrooke fron1 1970 to 1999. She has published, with the Collectif Clio, Histoire des fen1mes au Quebecdepuis qttatre sii?cles (Quinze 1982 et )our 1992). She is co-author with Nadia Fahmy-Eid of Maitresses de n1aiso11, Maftresses d'€cole, (BoreaI 1983) and Les Couventines (Boreal 1986) and she has also published Les religieuses sont-elles fen1i11istes? (Bellarmin, 1995). She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1993 and has just been n1ade «Professeure emerite de l'Universite de Sherbrooke». Kiera L. Ladner is currently teaching in the Native Studies departn1ent atTrent University and is a doctoral candidate at Carleton University. Chantal Maille is an associate professor in the Women's Studies Programme at Concordia University. I-ler recent work has focussed on Quebec women and nationalism, the won1en's movement, and women and social policies. She is the author ofLes Qu€becoises et la conqui!te du pouvoir politique (1990, Prin1e for Power: Wo1nen in Canadian Politics (1990), and co-author of Malaises identitaires: €cl1a11ges fin1i11istes autour d'un Qufbec incertain (1999). She has published her work in Recherclles f