FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Eeva Raevaara
Coordinator at the Christina
Institute for Women's Studies, researcher in political science. Currently
writing her doctoral thesis on women and politics in Finland and France.
Has published also on equality policies in the European Union.
E-mail: eeva.raevaara@helsinki.fi
Susanna Taskinen
Graduate student in sociology and women's studies at Helsinki
University. Currently writing her master's thesis on women in the academia.
E-mail: Susanna.Taskinen@helsinki.fi
FRANCE - Women, Work and Employment
Nicky Le Feuvre
Dr. Nicky Le Feuvre was born in the U.K. and has been working
in France since 1990. She is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Feminist
Studies at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, where she runs a postgraduate
course in "Gender and Social Policy", and the Director of an
interdisciplinary research team Equipe Simone. Her research interests centre
on feminist and gender theory and she has collaborated on several cross-national
comparative research projects on women's work and employment, with particular
reference to the feminization of professional occupations in France and
the U.K.
E-mail: simone@cict.fr or lefeuvre@cict.fr
The texts written in French and Spanish have also been translated
by her.
Berit Bareksten
Graduate student in sociology at the University of Bergen. Research
interests: family sociology and gender issues. Email: Berit.Bereksten
@ SOS.UiB.No
Hildur Ve
Professor of sociology at the University of Bergen. Research interests:
family and gender; action research on gender in primary education.
Email: Hildur.Ve@SOS.UiB.No
Pilar Ballarín Domingo
Professor of Theory and History of Education at the University of Granada.
Coordinator of the Women's Studies Network, Erasmus/Socrates program. Research
interests: history of women's education, teachers, and the construction
of identities at the Institute of Women's Studies at the University of
Granada.
Email: ballarin@platon.ugr.es
Margarita M. Birriel Salcedo
Professor of Modern History at the University of Granada. Director
of the Women's Studies Institute. Research interests: family, marriage
and women in the modern world.
Email: mbirriel@goliat.ugr.es
Candida Martínez López
Professor of Ancient History at the University of Granada. Research
supervisor at the Women's Studies Institute. Research interests: women
and ancient societies, gender, work, space, and domestic production units.
Email: Candidam@platon.ugr.es
Teresa Ortíz Gómez
Professor of the History of Science at the University of Granada. Coordinator
of the doctoral program at the Women's Studies Institute. Research interests:
women and the health profession. Email: tortiz@goliat.ugr.es
UK - Women's Movement & Women and the Family
Val Balding
Researcher at the Research Centre on Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations,
Leeds Metropolitan University. Research interests: policing repeat victimisation
in domestic violence, pornography on the internet.
E-mail: V.Balding@lmu.ac.uk
Catherine Euler
Researcher at the Research Center on Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations,
Leeds Metropolitan University and lecturer on the MA in Violence, Abuse
and Gender Relations to be begin in the academic year 1998-1999, Leeds
Metropolitan University. Research interests: history of sexuality, history
of women and war, history of trafficking in women and girls.
E-mail: C.Euler@lmu.ac.uk
Jalna Hanmer
Director of the Research Centre on Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations,
Leeds Metropolitan University. Research interests: violence against women
and children including state, community and voluntary agency responses;
gender, reproductive technology and genetics; women’s studies.
E-mail: J.Hanmer@lmu.ac.uk
Debbie Wigglesworth
Researcher, Sunderland University. Research interests: violence to and
trafficking in women; prostitution; effects of pornography on women and
children; child abuse.
Email: drwigglesworth@enterprise.net
