Notes On Contributors

IULIE ASLAKSEN is Senior Research Fellow in the Research Department of Statistics Norway. She has a doctorate in oil and resource economics, and has published in Feminist Economics on the economics of women's unpaid household work. Her current research is in environmental economics and ethical investment. ([email protected])

ISAAC D. BALBUS is Professor of Political Science and teaches social and political theory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Dialectics of Legal Repression (1973), co-winner of the 1974 C. Wright Mills Prize of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Marxism and Domination (1982), and Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father (1998). He is currently working on a cultural psychoanalysis of modernity whose tentative title is Manic-Depressive Modernity. ([email protected])

SUE CAMPBELL is Associate Professor of Philosophy/Women's Studies at Dalhousie University. Her research interests are in philosophical psychology. She is the author of Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings (1997), and the coeditor (with Susan Babbitt) of Racism and Philosophy (1999). Her most recent work is on the social/political dimensions of memory experience and includes “Women, ‘False’ Memory, and Personal Identity,”(Hypatia, 1997), and “Memory, Suggestibility, and Social Skepticism” (in Nancy Tuana and Sandra Morgen, eds. Engendering Rationalities, 2001). ([email protected])

JULIA O'CONNELL DAVIDSON is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. She has been involved in research on various aspects of the commercial sex industry since 1993. Among other works, she is author of Prostitution, Power and Freedom (1998), and is currently writing a book on children's presence in the global sex trade. (julia.o'[email protected])

DAWN RAE DAVIS, an interdisciplinary Women's Studies scholar with primary emphases in feminist epistemology, philosophy, theory, and postcolonial studies, is currently in the Feminist Studies doctoral program at the University of Minnesota. Other research interests include the disciplinary identity of Women's Studies and feminist critical studies of whiteness. She is completing the research and writing for a short monograph, Learning Whiteness: The Personal Politics of Fear, Protection, and Romance (n.d.). ([email protected])

PAULA ENGLAND is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. She is editor of Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory (1993), and author of Households, Employment, and Gender (with George Farkas, 1986), Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence (1992), and articles on gender inequality in labor markets and the family. She loves the work of interdisciplinary dialogue among philosophers, sociologists, economists, and feminists in each of these fields. ([email protected])

VIRGINIA HELD is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, Graduate School and Hunter College. Among her books are Rights and Goods: justifying Social Action (1989); Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics (1993); and the edited collection Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics (1995). She is currently working on a number of essays on the ethics of care. In 2001-2002 she is President of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division).

CRESSIDA J. HEYES is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada, where she writes and teaches primarily in political and feminist philosophy. She has published in Hypatia and Teaching Philosophy, and her article “Back to the Rough Ground: Wittgenstein, Essentialism, and Feminist Methods” is forthcoming in Naomi Scheman, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Her first book, Line Drawings: Defining Women through Feminist Practice (2000) argues for Wittgensteinian routes out of the impasses created by the essentialism debates in feminist theory. She is currently working on two projects: an edited collection of essays on Wittgenstein and political philosophy to be published in 2002, and a series of articles on the feminist politics of sexual communities. The first of these articles, “Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender” argues that the ethical and political dilemmas faced by feminists who are and are not transgendered are more similar than some critics have suggested. ([email protected])

PATRICK D. HOPKINS teaches Philosophy and Gender Studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the editor of Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology (1999) and is currently compiling a companion volume to this book on race, ethnicity and technology. He has published numerous articles on bioethics, gender studies, and religion. ([email protected])

ANNE C. KLEIN is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She is the author of four books, including Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Seif (1995). She is also Founding Director of Dawn Mountain, a Tibetan practice and research center, in Houston (http://www.dawnmountain.org). Her academic work focuses on ways of knowing described by various Tibetan philosophical and meditative systems, and the cultural systems in which these are embedded, ([email protected])

REBECCA KUKLA is Associate Professor of Philosophy and of Politics and Governance at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She has published on Rousseau, Hegel, feminist theory, aesthetics, media studies, and contemporary and modern epistemology and philosophy of mind, in journals such as the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophical Studies, the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, and the British Journal of the Philosophy of Science. She is currently working on two monographs: one on Rousseau's aesthetics, and one on the role of myth, memory, and misrecognition in enabling the possibility of objective judgment. ([email protected])

ROSALIND EKMAN LADD is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Wheaton College (MA) and Lecturer in Pediatrics in the Brown University Medical School. She is coauthor of Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics: A Case Study Approach (1991) and editor of Children's Rights Re-Visioned: Philosophical Readings (1996). Currently she is coauthoring a book on home health care nursing. ([email protected])

CAMERON LYNNE MACDONALD is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests encompass all aspects of caring labor. The project that explores organizal efforts among childcare workers and nurses was funded by a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her forthcoming book, Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Social Construction of Mothering, investigates how working mothers negotiate the division of mothering labor with a paid caregiver, exploring the conflicts and contradictions inherent in commodified mother-work, and suggesting possible solutions. ([email protected])

GABRIELLE MEAGHER is Lecturer in Political Economy at The University of Sydney, Australia. In addition to research on domestic workers, her interests include the recognition and reward of the caring labor of social service workers. She is currently working on a collaborative project with social work academic Dr. Karen Healy, and family services charity UnitingCare Burnside. She has recently published articles in Economic and Industrial Democracy and Women's Studies Quarterly. Her book on domestic workers in the new service economy is forthcoming (2002). ([email protected])

DAVID A. MERRILL is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to his interest in child care workers, he is also conducting research on tactics used by nursing unions to reframe the debate over health care. This article is part of a larger project to examine the links between caring and power. He recently coauthored a symposium article in Contemporary Sociology with Myra Marx Ferree on the relationship between gender and social movement theories of framing. ([email protected])

JULIE A. NELSON is author of Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics (1996) and coeditor of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics (1993). She has been a government researcher, an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California-Davis and at Brandeis University, and is currently at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. She is interested in the economics of care, and the application of relational ontologies to the economic and physical worlds. ([email protected])

JOAN C. TRONTO is professor of political science and women's studies at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The author of Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (1993) and numerous articles about feminist political theory, she is currently writing about public modes of caring. ([email protected])

CHRISTINE L. WILLIAMS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin, where she teaches courses on gender, sexuality, qualitative research methods, and social theory. She is the author of two books, Gender Differences at Work: Women and Men in Nontraditional Occupations (1989) and Still a Man's World: Men Who Do “Women's Work” (1995), and the editor of several collections, including Feminist Views of the Social Sciences (a special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2000), and Sexuality and Gender (coedited with Arlene Stein, 2002). She is currently working on an ethnography of consumerism and children's popular culture.