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Genders 30
1999
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
COLIN EISLER is the Robert Lehman Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts. Though his major interest is in the Renaissance, he has studied photography, beginning with a Yale Scholar of the House study of the Stieglitz Circle. He has contributed articles on photography to L'oeil, Conaissance des Arts, The Lugano Review, On Paper, and to the recent Irving Penn catalog [Chicago, 1998]. He was on the board for the International Center for Photography and wrote the introduction to Anne Ehrenkranz, Picturesque Localities, devoted to the photography of William James Stillman [1998]. He is currently preparing studies of precedence for the gender elements in the art of Jasper Johns and of transgender issues in Pre-Raphaelite art.
SAIYEDA KHATUN teaches in the Department of English at the University of Rhode Island. She is currently working on a translation of Taslima Nasrin's novel Shodh (Getting Even).
SALAH el MONCEF is associate professor of American culture at the University of Nantes, France. He was a Fulbright doctoral fellow at Indiana University at Bloomington. He has written highly acclaimed essays on modernist poetry and postmodern fiction. He has recently completed Atopian Limits, an interdisciplinary study on postmodern American narrative.
KATHY RUDY is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Women's Studies at Duke University, and is the author of Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: Moral Diversity in the Abortion Debate (Beacon, 1996), Sex and the Church: Gender, Homosexuality, and Contemporary Christian Politics (Beacon, 1997), and Moral Support: An Argument about Illness, Narrative, and Human Meaning (forthcoming). She has also published articles on abortion and reproduction, sexual ethics, feminist ethics, bioethics, and feminist theory. She is currently working on a project exploring the history of feminist theory in the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in Theological Ethics, a Masters of Divinity, and has been active in various forms of politics since the late 1970's.
AUSTIN SARAT teaches law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College. This paper is part of a larger project on the cultural lives of law. He has recently edited two books, The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture (Oxford, 1998) and Law in the Domains of Culture (Michigan, 1998).
SUSAN H. WILLIAMS is a professor at Indiana University School of Law -- Bloomington. She teaches courses on the first amendment and on feminist jurisprudence and has published in a variety of law journals. This article will form part of a book she is presently writing, under contract to New York University Press, entitled, Truth, Speech, and Autonomy: A Feminist Revision of Free Speech Theory.
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