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Jennifer Guglielmo is an assistant professor of history at Smith College and author of Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), which was awarded the Organization of American Historians' Lerner-Scott Prize in U.S. women's history. Guglielmo is also co-coeditor (with Salvatore Salerno) of Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America (Routledge, 2003).

Jill Massino received her PhD in East European and Cultural History from Indiana University in 2007 and is currently a visiting scholar in the history department at Northwestern University. Her recent publications include: "Constructing the Socialist Worker: Gender, Identity, and Work under State Socialism in Braşov, Romania," Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History 3 (2009) and Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe, coedited with Shana Penn (Palgrave, 2009).

Johanna I. Moya Fábregas earned her PhD in Latin American History at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is currently a visiting researcher at the Instituto de Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Marilyn Morris is an associate professor of history and director of the Study of Sexualities program at University of North Texas (www.hist.unt.edu/sos). She has authored The British Monarchy and the French Revolution (Yale University Press, 1998) and articles on such topics as attitudes toward national and personal debt, royal family values, representations of sexual infidelity, transgendered identities, same-sex sexuality, and friendship in the eighteenth century. She is currently completing a book that examines the evolution of moral discourse in political propaganda and the public fascination with the personal lives of political leaders in eighteenth-century Britain.

Valerie Ritter was an assistant professor in South Asian Literature at the University of Chicago. Her article is based upon a chapter of her forthcoming book, Kāma's Flowers: Nature in Hindi Poetry and Criticism, 1885–1925 (Albany: SUNY Press). [End Page 203]

Tanfer Emin Tunc is an assistant professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. She has published on reproductive health, women's history, consumer culture, and American literature. Her books include Technologies of Choice: A History of Abortion Techniques in the United States, 1850–1980 (VDM, 2008), The Globetrotting Shopaholic: Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Places (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), and The Theme of Cultural Adaptation in American History, Literature, and Film: Cases When the Discourse Changed (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009). She is currently completing Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming, 2010).

Karen Offen is a historian and independent scholar, affiliated as a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. She is a founder and past secretary-treasurer of the International Federation for Research in Women's History, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International Museum of Women (San Francisco), where she posts a women's history blog, "Clio Talks Back." She is the author of European Feminisms, 1700–1950: A Political History (Stanford University Press, 2000) and many articles and documentary volumes in European women's and gender history. Her edited collection of pathbreaking comparative articles on international feminisms, Globalizing Feminisms, 1789–1945 (Routledge, 2010), is now in print in the series "Rewriting History." Karen is finally completing her book on the "woman question" debate in modern France. For further information, visit www.karenoffen.com.

Lisa Jacobson is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press, 2004) and Children and Consumer Culture in American Society (Praeger Publishers, 2008), an edited collection of essays and primary source documents. She is currently working on a study of how alcohol producers, marketers, tastemakers, and consumers forged new cultures of drink after the repeal of Prohibition.

Fiona Paisley teaches cultural history at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She has published on empire and settler colonialism in transnational context, as well as...

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