Carole Shammas, Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Author of The Preindustrial Consumer in England and America (Oxford 1990) and with Marylynn Salmon and Michel Dahlin Inheritance in America. Most recent publication "Anglo- American Household Govt in Comparative Perspective" William and Mary Quarterly 1995. Teaches introductory Women's Studies course on gender and sexuality and also women's history.