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Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Syracuse University. Her books and anthologies include Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (2006), Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (1996), Singing in the Fire: Tales of Women in Philosophy (2003), and the co-edited collection Feminist Epistemologies (1993). Angela Bolte teaches philosophy at the University of Nevada-Reno. She has published in the areas of philosophy of law, autonomy, and the philosophy of emotions. Peg Brand teaches gender studies and philosophy at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is co-editor of Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (1995) and editor of Beauty Matters (2000). Cheshire Calhoun is Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Colby College. Her books include Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet: Lesbian and Gay Displacement (2000), and Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers (2003). Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her books include What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge (1991), Rhetorical Spaces: Essays on (Gendered) Locations (1995), and Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location (2006). Marilyn Friedman is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St ... log in or subscribe to read full text