Debra Bergoffen is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Women’s Studies Research and Resource Center, and a member of the cultural studies faculty at George Mason University. She is the author of The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities (SUNY Press 1997), which is reviewed in this issue of the Newsletter. Her writings focus on subjectivity and epistemological, ethical, political and feminist issues raised by the work of Beauvoir, Freud, Irigaray, Lacan, Nietzsche, and Sartre.

Samantha Brennan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Her various research interests include rights and feminist ethics, and the application of feminist rights analysis to issues relating to children and family justice.

Licia Carlson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. Her research interests include twentieth century French philosophy, epistemology, feminist philosophy, bioethics, and the intersection of philosophy and disability studies. She is currently working on a book that examines discussions of cognitive disability in philosophical discourse.

Tina Chanter is the author of Ethics of Eros: Irigaray’s Rewriting of the Philosophers (Routledge, 1995), and Time, Death and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger (Stanford University Press, forthcoming). She is the editor of Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas (Pennsylvania University Press, forthcoming), and has published articles on figures such as Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan, Levinas, Kristeva, and Merleau-Ponty, and on topics such as feminist theory, psychoanalysis, tragedy, and film.

Ann E. Cudd is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. She works on rational choice theory, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of social science. She is currently working on a book on the material and psychological forces of oppression and on reconciling liberalism and feminism.

Rosalyn Diprose is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is the author of The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Difference (Routledge, 1994) and Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas (SUNY Press, forthcoming).

Anne Donchin is Professor of Philosophy, former Director and currently Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at Indiana University, Indianapolis. She teaches and writes principally in the areas of medical ethics and feminist philosophy and has published numerous articles at the intersection of biomedical ethics and feminism. She is coeditor (with Laura Purdy) of Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances, (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), which is reviewed in this issue of the Newsletter. She is currently working on a book, Procreation, Power, and Personal Autonomy: A Feminist Critique (Temple University Press, forthcoming).

Sara Ebenreck is a member of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the honors campus for the state. She is co-editor of Presenting Women Philosophers (Temple University Press, 2000) and a member of the board of the Society for the Study of Women Philosophers.

Simona Goi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received her doctorate from the University of Minnesota in February of 2000, upon completion of a dissertation on the role of citizenship and religious commitments in constituting the self. Her work focuses on the history of political thought, including such figures as Calvin, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche, as well as more contemporary thinkers, such as Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. She is currently completing a project on the conjunction between agonal democratic theory and care ethics.

Jennifer Hansen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. She specializes in feminist theory, contemporary Continental philosophy, and aesthetics. She recently published "’Our Salvation’: Women’s Intervention in Philosophy," in the Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society (Spring 2000, vol. 5, no.1). She also edits a journal, Studies in Practical Philosophy (Humanities International/Brill Publishers).

Rosalind Hursthouse is Senior Lecturer at the Open University, U.K. She has recently published On Virtue Ethics with Oxford University Press.

Paul Kingsbury is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. He is the current editor of the social theory journal disClosure, has written a thesis investigating the spatialities of Nietzschean aesthetics in the context of Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, KY, and is now working on a dissertation about Jamaican tourism, race, and psychoanalysis.

Mary Mahowald is Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The College of Medicine, and the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Her recent books include Women and Children in Health Care: An Unequal Majority (Oxford University Press, 1993); Disability, Discrimination, Difference: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy (with Anita Silvers and David Wasserman; Rowman and Littlefield 1998); and Genes, Women, Equality (Oxford University Press, 2000), which is reviewed in this issue of the Newsletter.

Hilde Lindemann Nelson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. She is the coauthor, with James Lindemann Nelson, of The Patient in the Family (Routledge, 1995) and Alzheimer’s: Answers to Hard Questions for Families (Doubleday, 1996). She has edited two collections—Feminism and Families and Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics (both Routledge, 1997)—and co-edited Meaning and Medicine: A Reader in the Philosophy of Health Care (Routledge, 1999). Her articles in feminist ethics have appeared in Hypatia and a number of edited collections. She co-edits the Reflective Bioethics Series for Routledge and the Feminist Constructions Series for Rowman and Littlefield. Her most recent book is Injured Identities, Narrative Repair (Cornell University Press, forthcoming).

Dorothea Olkowski is Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of Philosophy and former Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her recent publications include, Gilles Deleuze and The Ruin of Representation (University of California Press, 1999) and an edited collection, Resistance, Flight, Creation, Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy (Cornell University Press, 2000).

Christine Overall is a Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. She is the editor or coeditor of several books and author of Ethics and Human Reproduction: A Feminist Analysis (Allen & Unwin, 1987), Human Reproduction: Principles, Practices, Policies (Oxford University Press, 1993), and A Feminist I: Reflections From Academia (Broadview Press, 1998), which is reviewed in this issue of the Newsletter. She writes a weekly feminist column, entitled "In Other Words," for the Kingston Whig-Standard. A collection of her columns in book form will be published in 2001 by Sumach Press, under the title, Thinking Like a Woman.

Dianne Romain is Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University, and the author of Thinking Things Through: Critical Thinking for Decisions You Can Live With (Mayfield 1996). She is presently translating a novel by Mexican writer Georgina Hernandez.

Sally J. Scholz is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. She specializes in political philosophy, social theory, and feminism. She is the author of On de Beauvoir (Wadsworth 2000) and co-editor of Peacemaking: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future (Rodopi, forthcoming). She has also published numerous articles on such topics as domestic violence, the exclusion of women in social and political theory, and systemic oppression.

Jo Trigilio is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies at Bentley College. Her work focuses in the areas of feminist epistemology, and feminist accounts of beauty and embodiment. She has been politically active in the feminist movement and lesbian/gay/bi/trans movement for the past 15 years.

Linda L. Williams is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University. She has written several articles on Nietzsche, including "A Feminist Interview with Friedrich Nietzsche," and her book, Nietzsche’s Mirror: The World as Will to Power, will be available from Rowman and Littlefield in Fall 2000.