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Contributors Tracy Brown is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Central Michigan University . She is the author of numerous articles on Pueblo ethnohistory. Caleb Crain is a writer who lives in New York City. He is author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. He has written essays for The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Nation. John D’Emilio is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. D’Emilio’s publications include Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities; Intimate Matters, cowritten with Estelle Freedman; and Lost Prophet. Lillian Faderman has published eleven books, including Surpassing the Love of Men, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, and To Believe in Women. Her latest book is Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians. Gunlög Fur is Associate Professor of History at Växjö University in Sweden . She is author of Colonialism in the Margins: Cultural Encounters in New Sweden and Lapland. Richard Godbeer is Professor of History at the University of Miami. He is author of The Devil’s Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England (1992), Sexual Revolution in Early America (2002), and Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 (2005). Ramón A. Gutiérrez is Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico , 1500–1846. He coedited, with Richard J. Orsi, Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush (1998). 391 Mark E. Kann, Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Southern California, holds the USC Associates Chair in Social Science. His publications include On the Man Question: Gender and Civic Virtue in America (1991); A Republic of Men: The American Founders , Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (1998); The Gendering of American Politics (1999); and Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy (2005). Clare A. Lyons is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland . She is author of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730–1830. Laura Mandell is Associate Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio. She is author of Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Lisa L. Moore is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Duke University Press, 1997). Anne G. Myles is Associate Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa and author of numerous essays on early American dissent. Her discussion “Queering the History of Early American Sexuality” appeared in the William & Mary Quarterly 60:1 (2003). Elizabeth Reis is Associate Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Oregon. She is author of Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England and editor of several volumes , including American Sexual Histories: A Blackwell Reader in American Social and Cultural History. John Saillant is Professor of History and English at Western Michigan University . He is author of Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753–1833 and coeditor with Joanna Brooks of Face Zion Forward: First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785–1798. Stephen Shapiro is an Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He coedited with Philip Barnard and Mark Kamrath, Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic. His study The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System is forthcoming from Penn State University Press. 392 Contributors ...

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