Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Her publications include The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory (2004) and Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex and Maternity in Film Noir, co-authored with Benigno Trigo (2002). Lisa Walsh is a Lecturer in French at Nottingham Trent University. Her publications include Subjects of Love and Desire: Readings in Maternity and Ethicity (forthcoming).