CLAIRE GOLDBERG MOSES is Professor and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and editor and manager of Feminist Studies. She is author of French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century, which won the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in 1985. LESLIE WAHL RABINE is Professor of French and Director of Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology, which won the Alice and Edith Hamilton Prize in 1985, and co-editor with Sara E. Melzer of Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution.
Adeline Masquelier is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University and author of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger.