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Women’s Studies ht. Forum, Vol. IS. No. 3, p. 439, 1992 Printed in the USA. 0277~5395/92 s5.00 + .oo Copyright 0 1992 Pergamon Press Ltd. BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Opal Palmer Adha has lectured at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, and at San Francisco State University. Currently she is completing her dissertation on Jamaican Women Writers. Her published works are, traveling women, poetry collaborative with Devorah Major, (Jukebox Press, 1989); BakeFace and Other Guava sto- ries, (Kelsey Street Press, 1986); and Pina, The Many- Eyed Fruit, a children’s book, (Julian Richardson Asso- ciates, 1985). J.D. from the University of Southern California Law Center, and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall). She is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Southern California where she teaches law and public policy. Her book International Human Rights: Universaiism versus Relativkm was published by Sage in 1990. She is married and has two children. Morwerma Grifflths lectures at the School of Education at the University of Nottingham where she is responsible for teaching Equal Opportunities, with special emphasis on gender issues. She is a founding member of the Soci- ety for Women in Philosophy in Britain, and coedited (with Margaret Whitford) Feminist Pempectives in Phi- losophy, Macmillan and Indiana, 1988. Linda L. Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She teaches East Asian history and a cross-cultural course on the history of women in East Asia and the United States. She is the recipient of the 1989 Asiatic Society of Japan Award. Caroline Ramaxanogl~~ lectures in sociology. She has taught and researched in the UK, Uganda, and Turkey and is currently a member of the Women, Risk, and AIDS Project researching the sexual behaviour of young people. Nison Dundes Rentdn received her B.A. in History and Literature from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, EBxabetb Rolls is a Senior Lecturer in Health Visiting and has recently completed the MA in Sociological Re- search in Health Care at the University of Warwick. She is currently on secondment to the Health Education Au- thority in London as Professional Development Man- ager. Ailbbe Smyth is joint Irish/UK Editor of Women’s Stud- ies International Forum and director of the Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) at University College Dublin. Her most recent book is Wildish Things: An Anthology of New Irish Women’s Writing, which she edited (Attic Press, 1989). Her cur- rent work is on women, sexuality, and the state in Ire- land. She is consultant editor to Attic Press, the Irish women’s publishing house, and lives (mostly) and writes (occasionally) in Dublin. Cbang-Ha Sob is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Sociology-Anthropology of South- west Texas State University. She earned a Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii as an East-West Center grantee. She is the author of The Chosen Women in Korean Poli- tics: An Anthropological Study (1991, New York: Praeger Publishers). 439
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Women’s Studies ht. Forum, Vol. IS. No. 3, p. 439, 1992 Printed in the USA.
0277~5395/92 s5.00 + .oo Copyright 0 1992 Pergamon Press Ltd.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS
Opal Palmer Adha has lectured at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, and at San Francisco State University. Currently she is completing her dissertation on Jamaican Women Writers. Her published works are, traveling women, poetry collaborative with Devorah Major, (Jukebox Press, 1989); BakeFace and Other Guava sto- ries, (Kelsey Street Press, 1986); and Pina, The Many- Eyed Fruit, a children’s book, (Julian Richardson Asso- ciates, 1985).
J.D. from the University of Southern California Law Center, and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall). She is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Southern California where she teaches law and public policy. Her book International Human Rights: Universaiism versus Relativkm was published by Sage in 1990. She is married and has two children.
Morwerma Grifflths lectures at the School of Education at the University of Nottingham where she is responsible for teaching Equal Opportunities, with special emphasis on gender issues. She is a founding member of the Soci- ety for Women in Philosophy in Britain, and coedited (with Margaret Whitford) Feminist Pempectives in Phi- losophy, Macmillan and Indiana, 1988.
Linda L. Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She teaches East Asian history and a cross-cultural course on the history of women in East Asia and the United States. She is the recipient of the 1989 Asiatic Society of Japan Award.
Caroline Ramaxanogl~~ lectures in sociology. She has taught and researched in the UK, Uganda, and Turkey and is currently a member of the Women, Risk, and AIDS Project researching the sexual behaviour of young people.
Nison Dundes Rentdn received her B.A. in History and Literature from Radcliffe College, Harvard University,
EBxabetb Rolls is a Senior Lecturer in Health Visiting and has recently completed the MA in Sociological Re- search in Health Care at the University of Warwick. She is currently on secondment to the Health Education Au- thority in London as Professional Development Man- ager.
Ailbbe Smyth is joint Irish/UK Editor of Women’s Stud- ies International Forum and director of the Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) at University College Dublin. Her most recent book is Wildish Things: An Anthology of New Irish Women’s Writing, which she edited (Attic Press, 1989). Her cur- rent work is on women, sexuality, and the state in Ire- land. She is consultant editor to Attic Press, the Irish women’s publishing house, and lives (mostly) and writes (occasionally) in Dublin.
Cbang-Ha Sob is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Sociology-Anthropology of South- west Texas State University. She earned a Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii as an East-West Center grantee. She is the author of The Chosen Women in Korean Poli- tics: An Anthropological Study (1991, New York: Praeger Publishers).
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