Meade, Teresa A.

Teresa A. Meade is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Women's Studies at Union College, New York. She is the author of ""Civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City" (1997), "A Brief History of Brazil" (2003), and is working on a project on marriage on the Alta California frontier, 1769-1860.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her recent books include "Gender in History ("Blackwell, 2001), "Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe" (1993), Discovering "the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence" (1997),...