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Women’s Shddies ht. Forum, Vol. 15, Nos. 5Ki.p. 629, 1992 Printed in the USA. m-l-5395/92 $5.00 + .a0 Copyrieht 0 1992 Pergamn Ress Ltd. BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Nessy Allen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Science and Technology Studies at the University of New South Wales. She teaches courses on the history of ancient and modem we&em cosmology, the history of medical the- ory and practice, and the social history of science and technology. In 1992 she has introduced a course on women and science, which is her main research interest. At present she is involved in a major project concerned with the careers of eminent Australian women scientists who were active during and after the second world war. Pamela Cotterill is a Lecturer in Sociology at Stafford- shire. Her doctoral thesis on mother and daughter-in- law relationships was completed in 1989, and she is cur- rently working on a book entitled “Friendly Relations: Mothers And Their Daughters-in-law” to be published in 1993. Eileen Drew was a founding member of the Centre for Women’s Studies in Trinity College, Dublin. She teaches a course on ‘Women, Work and Employment’ to Wom- en’s Studies M. Phil. students. along with other courses in the Department of Statistics. Her recently completed doctoral thesis concentrated on ‘Part-time Working’ with particular reference to Ireland in the context of trends within the European Community. Sue V. Rosser, a Ph.D. in zoology, is Director of Wom- en’s Studies at the University of South Carolina at Co- lumbia and Professor of Family and Preventive Medi- cine in the Medical School there. She has edited collections and written numerous journal articles on the theoretical and applied problems of women and science. Author of the books Teaching About Science and Health from a Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide (1986), Feminism Within the Science and Health Care Profes- sions: Overcoming Resktance (1988). Female-Friendly Science (1990) from Pergamon Press and Feminirrn and Biology: A Dynamic Interaction in press from Macmil- lan. she is also the Latin and North American Co-Editor of Women’s &dies International Forum. Ailbhe Smylb is joint Irish/UK Editor of Women’s Stud- ies International Forum and director of the Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre (WE?RRC) at University College Dublin. Her most recent book is Wild&h 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. Lois A. West is a postdoctoral fellow at the Prevention Research Center, University of California, Berkeley. Julie Park is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the She has her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has pub- California, Berkeley, and her M.A. in Women’s Studies lished in the areas of community studies, gender, and from George Washington Univssity, and was formerly health and is particularly interested in ethnography in Director of the Resource Center on Family Violence at complex societies. the Center for Women Policy Studies. 629
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Women’s Shddies ht. Forum, Vol. 15, Nos. 5Ki.p. 629, 1992 Printed in the USA.
m-l-5395/92 $5.00 + .a0 Copyrieht 0 1992 Pergamn Ress Ltd.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS
Nessy Allen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Science and Technology Studies at the University of New South Wales. She teaches courses on the history of ancient and modem we&em cosmology, the history of medical the- ory and practice, and the social history of science and technology. In 1992 she has introduced a course on women and science, which is her main research interest. At present she is involved in a major project concerned with the careers of eminent Australian women scientists who were active during and after the second world war.
Pamela Cotterill is a Lecturer in Sociology at Stafford- shire. Her doctoral thesis on mother and daughter-in- law relationships was completed in 1989, and she is cur- rently working on a book entitled “Friendly Relations: Mothers And Their Daughters-in-law” to be published in 1993.
Eileen Drew was a founding member of the Centre for Women’s Studies in Trinity College, Dublin. She teaches a course on ‘Women, Work and Employment’ to Wom- en’s Studies M. Phil. students. along with other courses in the Department of Statistics. Her recently completed doctoral thesis concentrated on ‘Part-time Working’ with particular reference to Ireland in the context of trends within the European Community.
Sue V. Rosser, a Ph.D. in zoology, is Director of Wom- en’s Studies at the University of South Carolina at Co- lumbia and Professor of Family and Preventive Medi- cine in the Medical School there. She has edited collections and written numerous journal articles on the theoretical and applied problems of women and science. Author of the books Teaching About Science and Health from a Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide (1986), Feminism Within the Science and Health Care Profes- sions: Overcoming Resktance (1988). Female-Friendly Science (1990) from Pergamon Press and Feminirrn and Biology: A Dynamic Interaction in press from Macmil- lan. she is also the Latin and North American Co-Editor of Women’s &dies International Forum.
Ailbhe Smylb is joint Irish/UK Editor of Women’s Stud- ies International Forum and director of the Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre (WE?RRC) at University College Dublin. Her most recent book is Wild&h 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.
Lois A. West is a postdoctoral fellow at the Prevention Research Center, University of California, Berkeley.
Julie Park is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the She has her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has pub- California, Berkeley, and her M.A. in Women’s Studies lished in the areas of community studies, gender, and from George Washington Univssity, and was formerly health and is particularly interested in ethnography in Director of the Resource Center on Family Violence at complex societies. the Center for Women Policy Studies.
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