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Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 26, No. 6, p. 589, 2003 Copyright D 2003 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0277-5395/$ – see front matter
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BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Maribel Blasco was Research Officer for the project ‘‘Gendered housing: identity and independence in urban Mexico’’ (1997 – 2000). She has a PhD in International Development Studies from Roskilde University, Denmark, and is currently working as Assistant Professor in Spanish American Studies at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School.
for providing technical support to countries in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating community-based programs. She earned her doctoral degree in public health, where she concentrated on how women conceptualized and resisted gender-based violence in Delhi slums, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000.
Mary Bryson is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She has published on gender and technology, technology policies in schools, and queer studies. Her current research focuses on the development of environments conducive to playful engagements with digital tools.
Carrie Paechter is a Reader in Education at Goldsmiths College, London. Her research centers around the intersection of gender, power, and knowledge, the construction of gendered, spatialized, and embodied identities, and the processes of curriculum negotiation. Her most recent books are Educating the Other: gender, power and schooling (1998, Falmer Press) and Changing School Subjects: power, gender and curriculum (2000, Open University Press).
Suzanne de Castell is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She has published widely in the areas of gender and technology, literacy, and schooling and is currently interested in problems of knowledge formation and curriculum design, especially focused on how these might best be accomplished through play. Jennifer Jenson is Assistant Professor of Pedagogy and Technology in the Faculty of Education at York University, Canada. Her current research interests include gender and technology, cultural studies of technology, and the design and development of educational computer gaming applications. Veronica Magar is the Asia Regional Advisor in reproductive health for CARE International. She focuses largely on gender-equity and is responsible
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Ann Varley is Reader in Geography at University College London. She is the co-author of Landlord and tenant: Housing the poor in urban Mexico (Routledge, 1991, with Alan Gilbert), editor of Disasters, development and environment (Wiley, 1994) and co-editor of Illegal cities: Law and urban change in developing countries (Zed Books, 1998, with Ede´sio Fernandes). Laura A. Wackwitz (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is an assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Oregon State University. Her research interests include freedom of expression, identity politics, and issues of social justice.
doi 10.1016/S0277-5395(03)00146-8
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Maribel Blasco was Research Officer for the project ‘‘Gendered housing: identity and independence in urban Mexico’’ (1997 – 2000). She has a PhD in International Development Studies from Roskilde University, Denmark, and is currently working as Assistant Professor in Spanish American Studies at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School.
for providing technical support to countries in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating community-based programs. She earned her doctoral degree in public health, where she concentrated on how women conceptualized and resisted gender-based violence in Delhi slums, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000.
Mary Bryson is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She has published on gender and technology, technology policies in schools, and queer studies. Her current research focuses on the development of environments conducive to playful engagements with digital tools.
Carrie Paechter is a Reader in Education at Goldsmiths College, London. Her research centers around the intersection of gender, power, and knowledge, the construction of gendered, spatialized, and embodied identities, and the processes of curriculum negotiation. Her most recent books are Educating the Other: gender, power and schooling (1998, Falmer Press) and Changing School Subjects: power, gender and curriculum (2000, Open University Press).
Suzanne de Castell is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She has published widely in the areas of gender and technology, literacy, and schooling and is currently interested in problems of knowledge formation and curriculum design, especially focused on how these might best be accomplished through play. Jennifer Jenson is Assistant Professor of Pedagogy and Technology in the Faculty of Education at York University, Canada. Her current research interests include gender and technology, cultural studies of technology, and the design and development of educational computer gaming applications. Veronica Magar is the Asia Regional Advisor in reproductive health for CARE International. She focuses largely on gender-equity and is responsible
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Ann Varley is Reader in Geography at University College London. She is the co-author of Landlord and tenant: Housing the poor in urban Mexico (Routledge, 1991, with Alan Gilbert), editor of Disasters, development and environment (Wiley, 1994) and co-editor of Illegal cities: Law and urban change in developing countries (Zed Books, 1998, with Ede´sio Fernandes). Laura A. Wackwitz (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is an assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Oregon State University. Her research interests include freedom of expression, identity politics, and issues of social justice.