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  • Contributors

Agatha Beins is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University. Her current book project draws from US feminist newsletters and newspapers published in the 1970s to consider how different facets of feminist print culture supported and sustained the women’s liberation movement.

Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and chair of the Department of Feminist Studies and professor of history and black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include the prize- winning Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 1994); Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care, coedited with Rhacel Parreñas (Stanford University Press, 2010); and, with Jennifer Klein, Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (Oxford University Press, 2012), which received the 2012 Sara A. Whaley Award from the National Women’s Studies Association for the best book on women and labor. She has held the Bicentennial Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki and visiting professorships at the University of Melbourne, Tokyo Christian Women’s University, and the University of Toulouse. Currently, she is on the advisory board of the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam; the executive committees of the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Social Science History Association; and the editorial boards of the Journal of American History and the Journal of Policy History. Her writings have appeared in the Nation, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, New Labor Forum, Salon, Dissent, Labor Notes, and the Women’s Review of Books.

Alexis Clements is a playwright, journalist, and independent scholar based in Brooklyn, New York. Her creative work has been produced and published [End Page 270] in both the United States and the United Kingdom. She is the coeditor of a two-volume anthology of performance texts by women titled Out of Time and Place (Women’s Project and Production, 2010), which includes her performance piece Conversation. Her articles, essays, and interviews have appeared in publications such as Bitch Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, the L Magazine, Nature, and Aesthetica. She regularly writes about art and performance for Hyperallergic. For more information see www.alexisclements.com

Elizabeth Currans, assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Eastern Michigan University, studies grassroots protest and public space, especially public demonstrations organized and attended primarily by women. Her book manuscript, provisionally titled Holding Space: Gender, Sexuality, and Public Demonstrations, is under contract from the University of Illinois Press and explores how participants in public protests claim and remake public spaces and the ways that gender, sexuality, and race influence our understanding of public space. Her article “Claiming Deviance and Honoring Community: Creating Resistant Spaces in US Dyke Marches” appeared in Feminist Formations 24, no. 1 (April 2012). Another article, “Negotiating Treacherous Terrain: Disciplinary Power, Security Cultures, and Affective Ties in a Local Anti-War Movement,” coauthored with Mark Schuller and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, was recently published in Social Justice 38, no. 3 (2012).

Britney Denham was born in California and raised in Gillette, Wyoming. She graduated from the Art Institute of Colorado with a BA in design management and an emphasis in photography in 2009. She received an MFA at The Ohio State University (OSU) in 2012 and is currently an instructor of record there. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally, including, most recently, at the exhibition IMAGEOHIO12, in Columbus, Ohio, and Home Is Where the Camera Is, at PhotoPlace Gallery, in Middlebury, Vermont, juried by Julie Blackmon.

P. R. Dyjak is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, where she teaches creative writing, poetry, and composition. Her newest chapbook, Symphony for the Cutters, is due out in late 2012 from Kattywompus Press. For more information see http://kattywompuspress.com/.

Julie R. Enszer is a PhD candidate in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. Her dissertation examines lesbian-feminist print culture from 1969 until 1989. [End Page 271]

Angus Fletcher is an associate professor of critical studies at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Evolving Hamlet (Palgrave...

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