Contributors
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Eliza Earle Ferguson is assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico. She is preparing a book on the intimate lives of the laboring poor, tentatively titled Vengeance: Gender and Intimate Violence in Fin-de-Siècle Paris. Articles drawn from this project have appeared in the Journal of Family History and the Journal of Social History.
Susan Mcdonough is assistant professor of history at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is at work on a manuscript on witnesses as the arbiters of good and bad behavior in late medieval Marseille. She can be contacted at mcdonoug@umbc.edu.
Sara M. Butler is assistant professor of medieval history at Loyola University New Orleans. She has written extensively on the social history of the law in medieval England, addressing subjects as diverse as marriage, family violence, suicide, alimony, and divorce. Her book, The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in Later Medieval England, was published in early 2007 by Brill.
Elizabeth Nelson is an associate of the history department at the University of Melbourne, where she completed her PhD on the First World War and domestic violence in Victoria, Australia. Her publications include "Civilian Men and Domestic Violence in the Aftermath of the First World War," Journal of Australian Studies (2003), and the coedited Letters From Aboriginal Women of Victoria, 1867-1926 (History Department, University of Melbourne, 2002).
Jo Aitken completed a PhD at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in 2005. Her PhD thesis investigated representations of wife beating by first- wave feminists, women's romance writers, and the men's popular press in Australia. She is currently working on articles on masculinity, nationalism, and violence, and can be contacted at jo.aitken@arts.monash.edu.au.
Malavika Kasturi, who received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, is assistant professor of South Asian history at the University of Toronto. Her first book, Embattled Identities: Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State (Oxford University Press, 2002), explored the transformation of [End Page 163] martial masculinities in late colonial India. Her research interests include gender history, legal history, and the social and cultural history of religion. Her current research project explores the ways in which popular religiosity shaped the public sphere in twentieth-century India. She can be contacted at malavika.kasturi@utoronto.ca.
Joanne Bailey is senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Her research centers on marriage, parenting, gender, and the law. Her publications include Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England 1660-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and articles analyzing the use of church court records as an historical source, married women's experience of coverture, and the location of wife beating in Historical Research, Continuity & Change, and Social History.
Estelle B. Freedman, the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University, is the author of No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (Ballantine Books, 2002); Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 2006); and the co-author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (rev. ed. University of Chicago Press, 1997). She has also edited The Essential Feminist Reader (New York: The Modern Library, 2007). Freedman is currently studying the politics of rape in U.S. history. [End Page 164]
