Janet K. Boles, Professor of Political Science, Marquette University, teaches courses on women in American politics and the politics of race, ethnicity, and gender, and has published extensively on the feminist movement, women in politics and elected office, and women and public policy. She is the author of The Politics of the Equal Rights Amendment (Longman, 1979) and, most recently, the Historical Dictionary of Feminism (Scarecrow Press, 2004) and a forthcoming revised paperback edition. Her current research is on the agenda shifts of the US women's rights movement and the emergence of transnational feminism.

Richard L. Fox is Associate Professor of Political Science at Union College. He is the author of Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections (Sage, 1997) and co-author of It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His work on gender and politics has also appeared in Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Women & Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Kim L. Fridkin is Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. She received her BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Political Consequences of Being a Woman (Columbia University Press, 1996), and the co-author of The Spectacle of U.S. Senate Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 1999) and No-Holds Barred: Negative Campaigning in Senate Campaigns (Prentice Hall, 2003). She has contributed numerous articles to various academic journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. Professor Fridkin's current research interests include women and politics and political communication.

Elisabeth Jay Friedman is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco. Her research focuses on issues of democratization, representation, and gender and politics in Latin America and globally. She is the author of Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936–1996 (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000) and co-author of Sovereignty, Democracy and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences (SUNY Press, 2005; with Kathryn Hochstetler and Ann Marie Clark). She is currently exploring the impact of the internet on Latin American gender equality organizing.

Mark P. Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rice University. His research focuses on the effect of electoral laws and other political institutions on governance, representation, and voting. His recent publications have appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, and the Journal of Politics. Professor Jones has written extensively on the topic of gender quota legislation. He regularly advises government institutions and non-governmental organizations in Argentina and other countries on the potential consequences of proposed electoral law reforms for the functioning of existing (or proposed) quota legislation.

Jyl Josephson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies at Rutgers University, Newark. She is coeditor, with Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, of the second edition of Gender and American Politics (M. E. Sharpe, 2005); coeditor, with Cynthia Burack, of Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); and author of Gender, Families, and State: Child Support Policy in the United States (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).

Timothy Kaufman-Osborn is the Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership at Whitman College. He is the author, most recently, of From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (University of Michigan Press, 2002). He served two terms as president of the Western Political Science Association (2001–2003), and is currently president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.

Miki Caul Kittilson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Arizona State University. Her research is rooted in a theoretical interest in the expansion of political participation—both in the inclusion of under-represented groups and in the adoption of more direct forms of participation. She compares participation, parties, and women and politics across established industrial democracies. Her book, Challenging Parties, Changing Parliaments: Women and Elected Office in Contemporary Western Europe, is forthcoming in 2006 with Ohio State University Press. In addition, she has published in journals such as International Organization, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Party Politics.

Jane Mansbridge is the Adams Professor at the Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 1983) and Why We Lost the ERA (University of Chicago Press, 1986). She is also the editor of Beyond Self-Interest (University of Chicago Press, 1990); co-editor, with Susan Moller Okin, of Feminism (Edward Elgar, 1994); and co-editor, with Aldon Morris, of Oppositional Consciousness (University of Chicago Press, 2001). Her current project, Everyday Feminism, investigates everyday activism among low-income, non-politicized women. She also works on political representation and deliberative democracy.

A. Lanethea Mathews-Gardner (PhD, Syracuse, 2003) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Muhlenberg College, where she teaches courses in American politics. Her research focuses on gender and American political development, civic engagement, and political behavior. She is currently working on a book manuscript on The Civic Roots of Modern Feminism: Changing Forms of Female Political Participation, 1945–1960.

Robert G. Moore is Instructor of Political Science at Delta College, and PhD Candidate of Political Science at Michigan State University. His dissertation focuses on changes in the political conceptualization/issue accessibility of American Evangelicals arising from increased political participation.

Zoe M. Oxley is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Union College. Her research and teaching interests include women and electoral politics, gender stereotyping, public opinion formation, political psychology, and news media coverage of politics. Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and PS: Political Science and Politics.