ABOUT THE AUTHORS
DOROTHY SUE COBBLE is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including, most
recently, the award-winning The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in
Modern America (2004) and Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (2007). She is
Distinguished Professor of History and Labor Studies at Rutgers University, where she specializes in the
study of work, social movements, and social policy in the United States and globally.
LINDA GORDON teaches U.S. history and comparative courses about gender, social movements, and
imperialism at New York University, where she is University Professor of the Humanities and History.
Her most recent books are Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (2009) and The Great Arizona
Orphan Abduction (2001). She is working on a history of social movements in the twentieth-century
United States.
ASTRID HENRY is the author of Not My Mother’s Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave
Feminism (2004), as well as numerous articles on U.S. feminism since 1990. She is Louise R. Noun
Chair in Women’s Studies at Grinnell College, where she teaches gender, women’s, and sexuality studies.
She is working on a study of feminist subjectivity and historiography in memoirs by U.S. feminists since
the 1970s.