#60;b#62;Merry Wiesner-Hanks#60;/b#62; is a Distinguished Professor of History and the Interim Director of the Center for 21#60;sup#62;st#60;/sup#62; Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the co-editor of the #60;i#62;Sixteenth Century Journal#60;/i#62; and the author or editor of twenty books and numerous articles that have appeared in English, German, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese. Her books include #60;i#62;The#60;/i#62; #60;i#62;Marvelous Hairy Girls#60;/i#62; (2009), #60;i#62;Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe#60;/i#62; (2008) and, with Teresa Meade, #60;i#62;A Companion to Gender History#60;/i#62; (Blackwell, 2004).