CONTRIBUTORS

Lynn Abrams is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of The Making of Modern Woman: Europe 1789-1918 (2002) and of Myth and Materiality in a Woman’s Island: Shetland 1800-2000 (2005). She has published widely in the field of modern European women’s and gender history on topics ranging from fatherhood and child welfare in Scotland to marriage, divorce and leisure in Germany. She is currently co-editing Gender in Scottish History (forthcoming 2006).

Anna Clark is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class and several other publications on domestic and sexual violence, lesbian history and sexual scandal. Her most recent book is Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (2004).

Karen Hunt is Senior Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published widely on women’s politics, particularly on aspects of the gendering of socialism, including Equivocal Feminists: The Social Democratic Federation and the Woman Question, 1884-1911 (1996) and with June Hannam, Socialist Women. Britain 1880s to 1920s (2001).

Jane Potter is Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University and Assistant to the Archivist at Wolfson College, Oxford. She is author of Boys In Khaki, Girls In Print: Women’s Literary Responses to The Great War, 1914-1918 (2005). Formerly a research editor at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, her research interests include wartime medical memoirs, romantic fiction and book history. She is Book Reviews Editor for the Women’s History Magazine.

Tammy M. Proctor is Associate Professor of History at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio where she teaches world, European and women’s history courses. Her published work includes two books: On Their Honour: Guides and Scouts in Interwar Britain (2002) and Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the Great War (2003). She received her Ph. D. in European women’s history in 1995 from Rutgers University and her undergraduate degrees in journalism and history from the University of Missouri.

Jean H. Quataert is Professor in History at Binghamton University, SUNY, teaching women’s history, German history and the history of human rights. She has written on a range of subjects and recent publications include The Gendering of Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (American Historical Association series in Global and Comparative History, 2005) and Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916 (2001). Her Advocating Dignity: The Human Rights System in Global Politics, 1945-2005 is in preparation (2007).

Sian Reynolds has taught at the universities of Sussex, Edinburgh and Stirling, where she is now Professor Emerita of French. She has published on French and Scottish history, as well as a number of translations. Books include France between the Wars: Gender and Politics (1996), and Contemporary French Cultural Studies (co-edited with William Kidd, 2001). She is currently working on a book about Paris and Edinburgh in 1900, co-editing the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (forthcoming, 2006) and translating a French crime novel.

Rebecca Rogers is Maitre de Conferences in history at the Universite Marc BLOCH in Strasbourg. Her publications include Les Demoiselles de la Legion d’honneur (1992), which dealt with the schools Napoleon established for girls in the early nineteenth century, and From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Women in Nineteenth-Century France (2005). Her research interests focus on girls’ education, women teachers, co-education and education in the colonies. She has published widely on such subjects in both French and English and has also written several comparative historiographical essays on gender history. She is currently working on a biography of a French woman who founded the first school for Muslim girls in Algiers in the late 1840s.

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor of British History at the University of Southern Denmark. Her publications include A History of European Women’s Work, 1700 to the Present (1998); she also co-edited Gendering Scottish History: An International Approach (1999) with Oonagh Walsh and Terry Brotherstone and Women and Higher Education: Past Present and Future (1996) with Mary Masson. Her research focuses on gender, childhood, education and work, especially in the eighteenth century, and she has published widely on these topics. She is writing Women in European Culture and Society for Routledge and co-editing Gender in Scottish History (forthcoming, 2006).

Pat Starkey is Lecturer in the School of History and Assistant Director of the School of Combined Honours at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are in the history of charity and voluntary organisations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and in women’s history. Her recent publications include ‘The Medical Officer of Health, the Social Worker and the Problem Family, 1943-1968: The Case of Family Service Units’, Social History of Medicine, 11 (1998); ‘The Feckless Mother: Women, Poverty and Social Workers in 1940s England’, Women’s History Review, 9 (2000), Families and Social Workers: The Work of Family Service Units, 1940-1985 (2000) and she has co-edited with Jon Lawrence Child Welfare and Social Action: International Perspectives (2001).