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Sara Ahmed is Reader in the Institute for Women's Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and is currently Director of the Institute. Her publications include Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1998) and Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloniality (2000). She has co-edited Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism (2000) and Thinking Through the Skin (2001). She is at present working on a book entitled The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Kum-Kum Bhavnani is Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, where she also chairs the programme in Women, Culture, Development. Most recently, she was founding editor of the journal Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Her edited collections include Feminism and ‘Race’ (2001) and, with John Foran and Priya Kurian, Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development (2002). Rosi Braidotti is Professor of Women's Studies at Utrecht University in The Netherlands and Scientific Director of The Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. She is also the Scientific Director of ATHENA, the Thematic Network of Women's Studies for the SOCRATES programme of the Commission of the European Union. Her publications include Patterns of Dissonance (1991), Nomadic Subjects (1994), Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development (together with Sabine ... log in or subscribe to read full text