BERENICE A. CARROLL is Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at Purdue University and Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her books and articles include Design for Total War: Arms and Economics in the Third Reich; Liberating Womens History: Theoretical and Critical Essays; “The Politics of ‘Originality’: Women and the Class System of the Intellect’’; and “Christine de Pizan and the Origins of Peace Theory.”

HILDA L. SMITH is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. She is author of Reasons Disciples: Seventeenth-Century English Feminists, co-compiler with Susan Cardinale of Women and the Literature of the Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography Based on Wing's Short Title Catalogue, and editor of Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition.