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Previous articleNext article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAziza Ahmed ([email protected]) is associate professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law, where she writes on sex, gender, health, and the law. Two of her recent publications include “Medical Evidence and Expertise in Abortion Jurisprudence,” American Journal of Law and Medicine 41, no. 1 (2015): 85–118, and “Trafficked? AIDS, Criminal Law, and the Politics of Measurement,” University of Miami Law Review 70, no. 1 (2015): 96–151.Leah Claire Allen is a visiting assistant professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at Grinnell College, where she teaches introductory and capstone seminars in gender, women, and sexuality studies. She is at work on a book titled “In Praise of Bad Critics” that revisits feminists from the 1960s and 1970s who have been considered “bad feminists” or “bad critics” either in the history of feminism or in literary and cultural criticism more broadly. She completed her PhD in literature and a graduate certificate in feminist studies at Duke University in 2014. She also holds an MA in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies from Simon Fraser University.Maria Bevacqua ([email protected]) is professor and chair of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is the author of Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000), and “Reconsidering Violence against Women: Coalition Politics in the Antirape Movement,” in Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, ed. Stephanie Gilmore (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008), 163–77.Lorna Norman Bracewell ([email protected]) is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska Kearney. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Florida in 2015. Her scholarly work is positioned at the intersections of political theory, history, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Her research interests include the feminist sex wars, sex-radical and antipornography feminist thought, sex-positive feminism, and the sexual politics of liberalism. She is currently at work on a project that considers the political implications of the invocation of therapeutic discourses in the context of commercial sex work.Jessica Braimoh ([email protected]) is a project coordinator in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University in London, Ontario. Her research interests include social relations of race, gender, class, and sexualities; organizations and institutions; qualitative research methods; and feminist theory. Her research examines the various contexts through which institutional processes unfold in people’s lives. She has published in Social Sciences and Medicine (123:82–89) and Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (42, no. 2:31–54).Alice Echols is professor of history and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Her books include Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (New York: Norton, 2010); Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (New York: Metropolitan, 1999); Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–75 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989); and Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), a collection of her essays. She is the director of USC’s Gender Studies Program and the Center for Feminist Research. Her forthcoming book, about a Depression-era banking scandal, is titled “Shortfall: A Hidden History of 20th-Century American Capitalism.”Jane F. Gerhard earned her PhD in American studies at Brown University in 1996. She is the author of Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), and The Dinner Party: Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970–2007 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013). Gerhard is also a coauthor, with Mari Jo Buhle and Teresa Murphy, of a US women’s history textbook, Women and the Making of America (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2008).Erinn Cunniff Gilson is associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Florida. Her areas of research include feminist theory, contemporary European philosophy, and food and agricultural justice, with a focus on theories of vulnerability. She is the author of The Ethics of Vulnerability: A Feminist Analysis of Social Life and Practice (New York: Routledge, 2014); “Vulnerability, Relationality, and Dependency: Feminist Conceptual Resources for Food Justice,” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 8, no. 2 (2015): 10–46; and other articles in Hypatia, PhiloSOPHIA, and Foucault Studies.Julie Gouweloos ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in sociology and a member of the Gender Studies and Feminist Research diploma program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She has taught courses in social inequality, the family, and feminist studies. Her dissertation explores intersectionality and collective identity in queer social movements. Her research interests include critical studies of gender and sexuality, feminist theories, social inequality, and social movements.Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is the author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), and Don’t: A Reader’s Guide to the Military’s Anti-gay Policy (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999). She coedited Left Legalism/Left Critique with Wendy Brown (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002); and After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory with Andrew Parker (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011); and solo-edited “Critical Directions in Comparative Family Law,” American Journal of Comparative Law 58, no. 4 (2010). She is working with Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir on two books about governance feminism.Melanie Heath ([email protected]) is associate professor of sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the author of One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America (New York: New York University, 2012). She has also published in Gender and Society, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Quarterly, and Contexts. Her current research compares government regulation of polygamy in France, Canada, and the United States.Anna Ioanes ([email protected]) is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is currently working on a book manuscript that theorizes depictions of senseless violence in post-1945 US literature and culture. Focusing on negative affects, the book explores violence as a meeting point between emotion inside and outside a work.Angela Jones is assistant professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. She is the coordinator of women, gender, and sexuality studies. Jones obtained her PhD from the New School for Social Research. Her research interests include African American politics, gender, and sexuality. Jones currently studies sex work in a digital era, specifically by using intersectional analysis to study the lives of adult webcam performers. Jones is the author of three books: A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias (New York: Macmillan, 2013); The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama (New York: Routledge, 2013); and African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2011). She is also the author of numerous scholarly articles that have been published in peer-reviewed journals.Treva B. Lindsey is associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Ohio State University. Her research interests include African American women’s history, black popular culture, black feminism(s), hip hop studies, and sexual politics. She has published in the Journal of African American Studies, African American Review, Meridians, Urban Education, the Black Scholar, and Feminist Studies. Her first book, titled “Colored No More: New Negro Womanhood in Washington, D.C.,” is in production with the University of Illinois Press. She is also the coeditor of a forthcoming collection on the future of black popular culture studies (New York: New York University Press, 2017).Amber Jamilla Musser ([email protected]) is assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests include queer of color critique, theories of embodiment, and sexuality studies. She has published or has forthcoming articles in Social Text, differences, WSQ, GLQ, Theory and Event, Rhizomes, Palimpsest, Feminist Formations, and Women and Performance. Her book Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism was published by New York University Press in 2014. She is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled “Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Becoming Woman” that examines the relationship between femininity and abjection.Anahi Russo Garrido is assistant professor in women’s studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her research currently focuses on gender and sexuality in Latin America, transnational feminisms, and queer and feminist anthropology. She has published articles on queer Mexico City in Women Studies Quarterly, NWSA Journal, and the Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies. She is working on a manuscript titled “Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship and Sex in Queer Mexico City.”Mickalene Thomas is a 2015 United States Artists Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Fellow, distinguished visual artist, filmmaker, and curator who has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Her work introduces complex notions of femininity and challenges common definitions of beauty and aesthetic representations of women. Thomas holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from Pratt Institute. Recent solo exhibitions include “Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses and Celebrities” at the Aspen Art Museum and “Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs” at the Aperture Foundation, New York, which is scheduled to travel to several venues across the United States through 2018, featuring her notably curated exhibition “tête-à-tête.” She is currently working toward her forthcoming solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which opens in October 2016. Mickalene Thomas is represented by Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.Jennifer Tyburczy is assistant professor of feminist studies and director of the LGBTQ studies minor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first book, Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display, was published by the University of Chicago Press in January 2016. Her research also appears in Criticism, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Museum and Society, QED, Radical History Review, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Women and Performance (for which her article was awarded the 2013 Crompton-Noll Award). In 2016, Tyburczy was awarded the Allan Bérubé prize for her museum exhibition Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship, which showed at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.Kimberly Walters is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor of international studies at California State University, Long Beach. She completed her doctorate at the University of Chicago in the Department of Comparative Human Development. She writes about the lives of women who sell sex in South India and the various humanitarian attempts to change them. Walters’s research has found that sex workers in Hyderabad, India, use the transnational antitrafficking movement as a stage to perform themselves as morally continuous with their local communities.Suzanna Danuta Walters is editor in chief of Signs: Journal of Women of Culture and Society and director of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and professor of sociology at Northeastern University. Her work centers on questions of gender, sexuality, politics, and popular culture. Her most recent book, The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions Are Sabotaging Gay Equality (New York: New York University Press, 2014), explores how notions of tolerance limit the possibilities for real liberation and deep social belonging. She is also the author of All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001); Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995); and Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). In addition, Walters has published numerous articles and book chapters on feminist theory, queer theory and LGBT studies, and popular culture in addition to blog posts, op-eds, and articles for the popular press. In 2004, while at Indiana University, Walters founded the first PhD program in gender studies in the nation, and she has held positions at Georgetown University and Colorado College. 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