Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books over several months at the request of her publisher. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Scholars classify Little Women as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.
Sarah Anne Coakley is an English Anglican systematic theologian and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests. She is Honorary Professor at the Logos Institute, the University of St Andrews, after she stepped down as Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity (2007–2018) at the University of Cambridge. She is also Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, both in Melbourne and in Rome.
France Winddance Twine is an academic, filmmaker and visual artist from Chicago. She is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she regularly teaches courses on race, gender, inequality, girlhood, and sociology of the body.
Mahnaz Afkhami is an Iranian women's rights activist who served in the Cabinet of Iran from 1976 to 1978.
Sarah Jane Whatmore, FBA, FAcSS is a professor of environment and public policy at Oxford University. She is a professorial fellow at Keble College, moving from Linacre College in 2012. She was associate head (research) of the Social Sciences Division of the university from 2014 to 2016, and became pro-vice chancellor (education) of Oxford in January 2017. From 2018 she has been head of the Social Sciences Division.
Laurie L. Patton is an American academic, author and poet who serves as the 17th President of Middlebury College and the president of American Academy of Religion in 2019.
Chinyelu Susan Onwurah is a British Labour Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, succeeding the previous Labour MP Jim Cousins, who had decided to step down after 23 years. She is Newcastle's first black MP. She is currently Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy, Science and Innovation, having been appointed to the role in October 2016.
Sylvia Chant is a professor of Development Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is Co-Director of the MSc Urbanisation and Development Programme in the LSE's Department of Geography and Environment.
Martha Chen is an American academic, scholar and social worker, who is presently a Lecturer in Public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Senior Advisor of the global research-policy-action network WIEGO.
Ailsa McKay was a Scottish economist, government policy adviser, a leading feminist economist and Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Penelope (Penny) Andrews is a South African and American legal scholar.
Naila Kabeer is an Indian-born British Bangladeshi social economist, research fellow and writer. She is also the president elect of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), her tenure will be 2018 to 2019. She works primarily on poverty, gender and social policy issues. Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection, focussed on South and South East Asia.
Martha Lorraine MacDonald is the professor of economics in the department of economics, St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2007 to 2008.
Linda Margaret McDowell is a British geographer and academic, specialising in the ethnography of work and employment. She was Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2016.
Ellen McCourt is a British trade unionist, and the main representative for junior doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) during a dispute about their new contract of employment.
Melissa Leach, is a British geographer and social anthropologist. She studies sustainability and development concerns in policy-making and has a focus on the politics of science and technology of Africa. As of 2017 she was the Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex.
Susan R. Grayzel is an American academic historian. Since 2017, she has been Professor of History at Utah State University, having previously been Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, where she was also Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies.
Raka Ray is an American sociologist and academic. She is a full-time professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the departments of Sociology and Southeast Asian Studies. Ray's research interests include gender and feminist theory, postcolonial sociology, emerging middle classes, South Asia, inequality, qualitative research methods, and social movements. Her current project explores changes in the meanings and relations of servitude in India. Ray is also an editor of the publication Feminist Studies.
Sarah Lousie Holloway, FAcSS, is a British geographer and academic. Since 2010, she has been Professor of Human Geography at Loughborough University.
