gills_et_all-third_wave_feminism_a_critical_exploration

Notes on Contributors
Mridula Nath Chakraborty is currently pursuing her PhD in English at
the University of Alberta, Canada. Her dissertation explores the affinities
and tensions between postcolonial identity politics in the academy and
Third World feminisms of colour in white-settler nations. She also has an
abiding interest in translation of bhasha literatures from regional Indian
languages into English, and is the co-editor of A Treasury of Bangla Stories
(1999). She is currently translating a collection of short stories by modern
Hindi writers.
Pamela Church Gibson is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at
the London College of Fashion, UK. She has published essays on popular
films, fashion, fandom and other related topics and has co-edited three
collections of essays, including The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998). The
British Film Institute will shortly publish a new, expanded edition of Dirty
Looks (1993), this time subtitled Gender, Power and Pornography. She is currently
writing a monograph on women, cinema and consumption.
Edward Davies completed an MA in Women’s Studies at the University
of Lancaster, UK. He is currently researching at Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK. In addition to issues relating to gender and transgender, he
is also interested in art, in particular the work of Jean-Baptiste-Camille
Corot, Edward Hopper and Vincent Van Gogh.
Jennifer Drake is an Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at
Indiana State University, US. She is the co-editor of Third Wave Agenda:
Being Feminist, Doing Feminism (1997), a follow-up volume to which is in the
works. She has published essays on women writers and visual artists, and her
current research focuses on American poetry of the 1950s and 1960s, and on
contemporary African American women poets.
Ednie Kaeh Garrison is a Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at Wells
College, US. She completed her PhD in American Studies at Washington State
University, US. She has published on third wave feminism and US Riot
Grrrls, and is currently designing a study of the global circulation of the
name-object ‘third wave feminism’.
Stacy Gillis is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University
of Newcastle, UK. She has published on third wave feminism, cybersex,
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