Notes on Contributors

PAUL BENSON is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. He writes on issues in ethics, action theory, and social philosophy.

JEANNINE ROSS BOYER, R.N., has practiced in the Veteran's Administration Medical System, as a public health nurse, and as a nurse clinician in a sexually transmitted diseases clinic; she has also often lectured on ethical aspects of nursing. She is currently employed as a consultant on medical issues by Holmen and Oistad, Attorneys at Law, in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

JANE BRAATEN teaches Philosophy at Hampshire College and Mount Holyoke College. Her teaching and writing are in the areas of feminist philosophy, philosophy of psychology, and 19th-20th century continental philosophy. Her current research is devoted to developing a feminist perspective on human intelligence research. She is also completing a book on Jiirgen Habermas.

CLAUDIA CARD, a graying, vegetarian, cat-loving, mid-western Sapphist of Celtic origins, professes lesbian culture, ethics, feminist theory, social philosophy, philosophy and literature, and environmental ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She's writing a book on character evolutions under oppressive institutions.

ESTHER FRANCES is a professional church musician turned philosopher turned radical feminist. She recently returned to her home town in rural Illinois in search of her roots. However, she discovered her “roots” do not nourish creative, energetic thought and action, so she is leaving home again in search of truth and wholeness.

MARILYN FRYE teaches Philosophy and Women's Studies at Michigan State University and will be a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota in 1990-91.

ANNE HARPER received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She currently works at McKinsey and Company in Atlanta, and is active in a number of feminist community organizations.

HELEN BEQUAERT HOLMES has a Ph.D. in genetics and is currently an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Massachusetts. She was a co-editor of Birth Control and Controlling Birth: Women-Centered Perspectives and The Custom-Made Child? Women-Centered Perspectives. Her research is on feminist technology assessment and ethical analysis in reproductive medicine. She was Guest Editor of Hypatia 4(2), the Special Issue on Feminist Ethics and Medicine.

MAREN KLAWITER lives in Chicago and works as an apprentice carpenter in residential construction (Local 242). She received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1987 with a major in philosophy at Haverford College.

JANE KNELLER teaches in the Department of Philosophy and the Women's Studies Program at Colorado State University. She has published primarily in the area of Kant and Kantian aesthetics, and the aesthetic theory of the Enlightenment. She is currently working on the role of the imagination in Kant's social philosophy.

MARIA LUGONES is a feminist philosopher and grass-roots political educator and organizer. She teaches at La Escuela Popular Nortena, a folk school in the North of New Mexico devoted to radical thinking and practice, and at Carleton College.

MARY JANELL METZGER is a Ph.D. student in English Literature at the University of Iowa, presently working on a dissertation concerning the representation of violence against women on the English stage between 1590 and 1610.

MARGARET NASH is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The State University of New York, College at Cortland. She teaches and writes in the areas of feminist philosophy, continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory.

JAMES LINDEMANN NELSON is Associate for Ethical Studies at the Hastings Center. His current research interests include the relationship between feminism and the “personal turn” in ethics, as well as feminist perspectives on research and reproductive ethics.

KELLY OLIVER teaches in the Philosophy Department at George Washington University. She is finishing a forthcoming manuscript, Unraveling the Double-bind; Julia Kristeva's Theory of the Subject for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, and is co-editor (with Dale Bauer) of the forthcoming special issue of Hypatia on Feminism and Language. She has written articles on Nietzsche, feminism, and post-structuralist theory.

SHERRI PARIS received her Ph.D. in Philosophy and Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and went on to do post-doctoral work at Yale University. For the past 10 years, she has worked as a fundraiser and coordinator for feminist organizations treating survivors of domestic violence, child abuse, and rape. She has also been an anti-nuclear activist. Currently, she teaches writing and Third World politics at the University of California, lives in Santa Cruz, has published fiction, poetry and book reviews.

JEAN P. RUMSEY is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Clarion University of Pennsylvania and has published papers on Kant's theory of character. Her current research projects are on problems of responsibility for character, and on problems of the use and abuse of high technology in medical ethics.

CAROL VAN KIRK received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and currently teaches Philosophy at Ohio University.

PENNY WEISS is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. Having just completed two years working as co-director of Purdue's Women's Studies Program, she is looking forward to completing her book manuscript on Rousseau. Her research interests revolve around the feminist reassessment of the history of political theory, and the history of feminist theory.

SUSAN WENDELL is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. She and David Copp edited Pornography and Censorship, Prometheus Books, 1983.

She has recently published articles in Hypatia on liberal feminism and feminist theory of disability.