Mrinalini Sinha is Associate Professor of History at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, USA and the North American co--editor for Gender & History. Her books include Colonial Masculinity: The a manly Englishmana and the a effeminate Bengalia in the late nineteenth century (1995) and a newly edited and introduced edition of Katherine Mayoa s 1927 classic Mother India. She is currently working on a monograph on the controversy over Mayoa s Mother India that is tentatively entitled Refashioning Mother India: Gender in the Making of a Nationalist Indian Modernity. Donna J. Guy is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. Author of Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Nation and Family in Argentina (1991), and co--author with Daniel Balderston of Sex and Sexuality in Latin America (1997), she has also published many articles about the history of women in Argentina. Currently she is preparing a book about state policies toward street children in Argentina, one that deals with gender, family, and the state. Angela Woollacott is Associate Professor of History and teaches in the Womena s Studies program at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA. Her publications include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (1994) and, co--edited with Miriam Cooke, Gendering War Talk (1993). She is currently working on Australian Women in London 1870--1940, including issues of colonialism in the metropolis, modernity, whiteness, gender and national versus imperial identities.
