Contributors

      Patricia Acerbi teaches history at George Washington University and through the Clemente Course in the Humanities at Bard College. She is the author of Street Occupations: Urban Vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850–1925 (2017) and a number of journal articles and book chapters.

      Susan D. Amussen is Professor of History at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England (1988); Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society (2007); and (with David Underdown) Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560–1640: Turning the World Upside Down (2017).

      Barbara Watson Andaya is Professor in the Asian Studies Program at the University of Hawai’i. A historian by training, her most recent books are The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Southeast Asian History, 1500–1800 (2006) and A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia (2016). She is General Editor of the new Cambridge History of Southeast Asia and is working on a book on gender in sexuality in Southeast Asia from early times to the present.

      Nupur Chaudhuri is Professor of History at Texas Southern University. She is the author of many articles, and the co‐editor of a number of books, including: with Margaret Strobel, Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance (1992), with Ruth Roach Pierson, Nation, Empire, Colony: Critical Categories of Gender and Race Analysis (1998), with Eileen Boris, Voices of Women Historians: Personal, Professional and Political (1999), and with Sherry Katz and Mary Elizabeth Perry, Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources (2010).

      Marcia‐Anne Dobres is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of Technology and Social Agency (2000) and has co‐edited Agency in Archaeology (2000) and The Social Dynamics of Technology (1999). She is currently investigating the social technology of Ice Age cave art in the French Pyrénées (c. 14,000 years ago) to understand its role in facilitating the negotiation of gender and social agency.

      Laura Levine Frader is Professor of History at Northeastern University, and was the holder of the first Gender Equality Chair at the Université de Sorbonne Paris Cité (USCP). Her publications include Gender and Class in Modern Europe, co‐edited with Sonya O. Rose, (1996), and Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model (2008).

      Patricia Grimshaw is Professor Emerita in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne where she taught women’s and gender history from the 1980s. Her publications include Women’s Suffrage in New Zealand (1972), Paths of Duty: American Mission Women in Nineteenth Century Hawai’i (1989), Equal Subjects, Unequal Citizens: Indigenous Peoples in Britain’s Settler Colonies (2003), and, most recently, White Women, Aboriginal Missions and Australian Settler Governments: Maternal Contradictions (2019).

      Julie Hardwick is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Practice of Patriarchy: The Politics of Household Life in Early Modern France (1998), Family Business: Litigation and the Political Economy of Daily Life in Early Modern France (2009), and Sex in an Old Regime City: Young People, Intimacy and Work in France, 1660–1789 (2020).

      Raevin Jimenez is LSA (Literature, Science, and Arts) Collegiate Fellow at the University of Michigan‐Ann Arbor. She specializes in precolonial African history, and is currently working on a book Guard against the Cannibals: Gender, Generation, and Political Identity in Southern Africa, 9th‐19th Century.

      Rosemary A. Joyce is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her experience as a field archaeologist conducting research in Honduras and Mexico, and as a museum anthropologist examining collections in museums through Europe and North America, informs her work on the way that sex and gender are shaped and anchored through materials ranging from clothing and jewelry to images depicting gendered stereotypes. She is the author of ten books including Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (2001), Embodied Lives (with Lynn Meskell; 2003), and Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives (2008).

      Darlene M. Juschka is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Religious and Critical Studies at the University of Regina. Her areas of interest are semiotics, critical theory, feminisms, and posthumanism. Some of her more recent work includes “Feminisms and the Study of Religion in the 21st Century,” Berlin Journal of Critical Theory (2018), “Feminist Approaches to the Study of Religion,” in Richard King, ed., Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches (2017), and “Indigenous Women and Reproductive Justice – A Narrative,” in Carrie Bourassa, Betty McKenna and Darlene Juschka, eds., Listening to the Beat of our Drum: Stories in Indigenous Parenting in Contemporary Society (2017).

      Amy Kallander is Associate Professor of Middle East History and affiliated faculty with the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Syracuse University. Her first book, Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia (2013) examines the political, economic, and social roles of elite women between 1700 and 1900. She is currently working on a book examining gender and modern womanhood in the Middle East and Tunisia in particular in the global 1960s.

Linda Kealey is Professor Emerita at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB, Canada specializing in Canadian women’s history with particular focus on labour, left‐wing politics and health. She is the editor or co‐editor of several volumes on Canadian women’s history, a former co‐editor of the Canadian Historical Review and former co‐editor (2003–2006) of Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal.

      Deirdre Keenan is Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Carroll College, where she taught Postcolonial Literature, American Indian Studies, Milton, and Renaissance Literature.

      Susan Kingsley Kent is an Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction in the Department of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of numerous books, including Gender and Power in Britain, 1640–1990 (1999), Gender and History (2011), and, most recently, Gender: A World History, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

      Sonya Lipsett‐Rivera is Professor of History at Carleton University in Canada. She is the author of Gender and the Negotiation of Life in Mexico, 1750–1856 (2012) and The Origins of Macho: