Josephine Donovan is professor emerita at the University of Maine and the author of Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditionsand Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726, among other books.Carol J. Adams is an independent scholar whose focus is on interrelated oppressions and whose books include The Sexual Politics of Meat, Prayers for Animals, and The Inner Art of Vegetarianism. Please visit her web site at www.caroljadams.com.Jonathan Freedman is professor of English and American studies at the University of Michigan. He has also taught at Yale, Caltech, and Oxford universities and at the Bread Loaf School of English. He is the author of Professions of Taste: Henry James, British… Aestheticism, and Commodity Cultureand The Temple of Culture: Assimilation, Anti-Semitism, and the Making of Literary Anglo-America.