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Shani DCruze is Reader in Womens History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research in womens and gender history have included work on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century family, on sexual and physical violence against women, on performance, gender and leisure in the twentieth century. As well as articles, publications include Crimes of Outrage, Sex, Violence and Victorian Working Women (1998). She is currently co-editor of Gender and History journal and presently developing research on gender, crime and culture in the twentieth century.
Ann-Marie Gallagher is a Senior Lecturer in Combined Honours at the University of Central Lancashire. Her background is as Course Leader of Womens Studies, and she has a number of academic publications in the field of women, history and spirituality. As well as making contributions to academic books and journals, Ann-Marie has participated in numerous regional and national radio programmes over the last ten years. She is an active member of the Self-Education Collective and contributes to many distance-learning programmes. She also writes popular books on paganism and womens spirituality.
June Hannam is a Reader in History at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her recent publications include contributions to A Suffrage Reader, eds C. Eustance et al. (Leicester, 2000) and Votes for Women, eds J. Purvis and S. Holton (2000). She has just completed a book with Karen Hunt, Socialist Women: Britain 18801920s (2001). Her current research interests are gender and labour politics after 1918 and elite women in Bristol in the nineteenth century.
Melanie Ili is Senior Lecturer in History and Womens Studies and Womens Studies Field Chair at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. She is author of Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From Protection to Equality (1999). She researches in the areas of Russian womens studies and Soviet economic and social history.
Claire Langhamer is a Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex. She has recently published Womens Leisure in England, 19201960 (Manchester, 2000) and is currently finishing a study of women and pubs in Second World War Britain. Her next major project will be a social and cultural history of courtship in twentieth-century Britain.
Cathy Lubelska was formerly Principal Lecturer in Social History and Womens Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. She now combines working as a director for an NHS Trust with teaching yoga and involvement in a range of freelance and voluntary projects including work on womens health issues, past and present.
Clare Midgley is Senior Lecturer in History and Head of the Centre for Gender Studies at London Guildhall University. She is the author of Women Against Slavery (1992) and editor of Gender and Imperialism (1998) and is currently working on a new book on British feminism and empire. Clare is also active in the Womens History Network and is co-editor of the journal Gender and History.
Parita Mukta is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her focus is on the relationship between politics, culture and emotional structures. She has published widely on the shifts and historical transitions in womens cultural expressions, as well as on religious authoritarianism. She is studying issues of memory and narrative and her forthcoming book documents family history and specific family narratives. Parita is concerned with making historical writings and political understandings accessible to a wider readership.
Alison Oram is Reader in Womens Studies at University College Northampton where she teaches history and womens studies. Recent publications include: Women Teachers and Feminist Politics 190039 (Manchester, 1996); The Lesbian History Source Book: Love and Sex between Women from 1780 to 1970 (2001) (with Annmarie Turnbull); and chapters in Sexology in Culture, eds L. Bland and L. Doan (Oxford, 1998); Votes for Women, eds J. Purvis and S. Holton (2000). She is currently researching representations of cross-dressing women in the British popular press from 1914 to the 1950s.
Louise Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research on the Irish suffrage movement and Irish Republican women is published in such journals as Gender and History, Feminist Review and Womens History Review. Her books include Irish Feminism and the Vote (Dublin, 1996) and Gender, Identity and the Irish Press, 19221937: Embodying the Nation (2001). She is currently engaged in a two-year research project on Irish womens emigration to Britain in the 1930s.
Wendy Webster is Senior Lecturer in history in the Department of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include Not a Man to Match Her: The Marketing of a Prime Minister (1990) and Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity 194564
