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Jenny Clegg, B.A., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in African and Asian Studies at Edge Hill University College. Her research interests centre on Third World politics, particularly China, women and development and the Chinese in Britain. She is author of Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril: the Marking of a Racist Myth, and has also published articles on womens issues.
Christine Collette, B.A., M.Litt., D.M.A., Senior Lecturer, Womens Studies, Edge Hill University College. Executive member, Society for the Study of Labour History. Teaching and research interests centre around issues of gender, class and ethnicity, including contribution to the New Dictionary of National Biography. Recent publications include: Ernest Bevin and Edo Fimmen and (with Bob Reinalda) ITF and women during the inter-war period in Bob Reinalda (ed.), The Fimmen Years, Stichting beheer IISG, Amsterdam; (1996), with Fiona Montgomery, The Patience of a Saint and the Cunning of the Devil: Teaching Womens Studies in the 1990s, Teaching in Higher Education 1(1); (1995), Daughter of the Newer Eve in Jim Fyrth (ed.), Culture and Society in Labour Britain, Lawrence and Wishart, London; (1993), Gender and Class in the Labour and Socialist International, 1923-1939, Gabriella Hauch, Geschlecht, Klasse, Ethnizitat, Vienna. To be published in 1997, The International Faith: the British Labour Movement and Europe, Scolar Press.
Greet Goverde teaches English at Nijmegen Community College. She is involved in local womens and ethnic groupings, politics and is a Green party activist.
Sue Graves is a mature student at Edge Hill University College and Lecturer in Administration at Skelmersdale College.
David A. Halsall, B.A., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Edge Hill University College. His interests include Feminist Geography, Transport Studies, the urban environment and the Netherlands, and he has published in a variety of these areas.
Elizabeth Hare, B.A., Ph.D., Head of Drama, Edge Hill University College, Previous publications include work on Educational Drama, Drama and Disability, and the assessment of creative work. Current research interests focus on performance and cultural identity.
Philomena Carlotta Hilaria Harrison, B.Sc., Dip. Psychiatric Social Work, Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. Particular interests are issues of racial identity around Black children.
Gerry Holloway is a feminist historian and Lecturer in Womens Studies at the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex. Recent publications include: (with Patricia Ambrose and Graham Mayhew), (1994), All Change! Accreditation as a Challenge to Adult Education; two essays in Mary Stuart and Alistair Thompson (eds.), (1995), Engaging with Difference: the Other in Adult Education. Forthcoming publications are: Finding a Voice: on Becoming a Working-Class Feminist Academic, in P. Mahoney and C. Zmroczek (eds.); Class Matters; Ada Nield Chew: An Uncomfortable Feminist, in E. Yeo (ed.), Mary Wollstonecraft: 200 Years of Feminism and Let the Women be Alive!: The Construction of the Married Working Woman in the Industrial Womens Movement, 1890-1914 in E. Yeo (ed.), Radical Femininities.
Beryl Madoc-Jones, M.A., Ph.D., Head of Womens Studies at Roehampton Institute. She is co-author with Jennifer Coates of (1996), An Introduction to Womens Studies, Blackwell.
Fiona Montgomery, M.A., Ph.D., Head of Womens Studies, Edge Hill University College. She has had previous teaching experience at the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Bolton Institute. Her research interests centre around issues of gender, education, politics, and literature, both in an historical and contemporary setting. Recent publications include: (1995), Women Who Dids in C.J. Parker, Gender and Sexuality in Victorian England, Scolar Press; Gender and Suffrage: the Manchester Mens League for Womens Suffrage, Bulletin of John Rylands University Library Manchester; with Christine Collette (1996), The Patience of a Saint and the Cunning of the Devil: Teaching Womens Studies in the 1990s, Teaching in Higher Education 1 (1). Forthcoming, (1997) Edge Hill University College: a History 1885-1997 Philimore Press.
Shauna Morton, B.A., is a Ph.D. student at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research examines the ideology of education in womens prisons. She has taught Womens Studies in a variety of settings including university, community education centres and womens prisons.
Mairead Owen, B.A., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer/Programme Leader in Womens Studies, Liverpool John Moores University. Recent publications include: (1994), Commonality and Difference: Theory and Practice, in S. Davies et al. (eds.), Changing the Subject: Women in Higher Education; (1996), with M. Price, Sitting Pretty: Womens Studies and the Higher Education Community in J. Elliott et al. (eds,), Communities and their Universities: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning.
Carol Poole spent her early years in Libya where she helped set up the Department of Urban Planning at the university of Gayaries. She organised the international conference, Green Towns and Cities UK/USA 1984 and contributed to the report which has subsequently been influential in the urban debate. Her main academic interest has been the development of courses for women and the Black community in Liverpool.
Sneh Shah, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.A., Director of the Centre for Equality Issues in Education, University of Hertfordshire. Editor of
