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About Jane GerhardMari Jo BuhleTeresa Murphy

Mari Jo Buhle is William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor and Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University specializing in American womens history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism 18701920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left second edition (1998). Professor Buhle held a fellowship (19911996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.   Teresa Murphy is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. Born and raised in California she received her B.A. from the University of California Berkeley and her PhD from Yale University. She is the author of Ten Hours Labor: Religion Reform and Gender in Early New England (1992) and is currently completing a study about the origins of womens history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is the former Associate Editor of American Quarterly.   Jane F. Gerhard is a visiting assistant professor of History at Mount Holyoke College specializing in American womens history and the history of sexuality in America. She received her B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts and her Ph.D. from Brown University. She is the author of Desiring Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought 1920 to 1982 (2001).