The "Second Wave" and Beyond scholarly community, launced in April 2006, is an innovative form of electronic communication and research that brings together feminist thinkers, both scholars and activists, to create a stimulating and supportive environment in which to pose and analyze compelling questions about feminist activism and theories, define new directions for historical research on this period, and provide a new venue for publishing traditional articles but also for writing and recording this history in ways made possible by the medium of online publication. 

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Editors 

Stephanie Gilmore received her Ph.D. in women's history from The Ohio State University in May 2005. While completing her degree, she also worked for four years as managing editor for the Journal of Women's History. As an independent historian in central Connecticut, she writes about, teaches, and does feminism and social justice work. She is currently editing Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, which is under contract with the University of Illinois Pressand will be published in late 2007. She is also completing her monograph on NOW chapters and grassroots activism, tentatively entitled "Beyond the Friedan Mystique."

Kimberly Springer completed her doctoral work at Emory University in 1999. She's since held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at William College and was assistant professor of black studies at Portland State University. She currently teaches US history, gender studies, and media studies at King's College London. She is the editor of Still Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African-American Women's Activism, (New York University Press, 1999) and author of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 (Duke University Press, 2005). Her media work includes the award-winning radio programs Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: a radio history of the Civil Rights Movement in five Southern communities; The Good Fight: a look at progressive activism in five parts; and TechKnow, a technology column for PopMatters.com. Her current project examines formal and informal censorship of black female sexuality.

Judith Ezekiel is associate professor at the Université de Toulouse le Mirail.  In addition to her book on feminism in a supposedly typical US city (Feminism in the Heartland, Ohio State UP, 2002), she has published extensively on the US and French women's movements, the history of women's studies, and Franco-American (mis)representations, in journals such as Les Temps Modernes, Nouvelles Questions Féministes, Women's Studies Quarterly, Feminist Studies, and Australian Feminist Studies. Founding editor of la revue d'en face and The European Journal of Women's Studies she also co-founded the French, European and International Women's Studies Associations (ANEF, WISE, WOWS), and created and runs their listservs WISE-L and etudesfeministes-L.  Since starting the group Race et Genre in 2002, a part of the Simone-Sagesse Women's Studies Research Center, her work has emphasized transnational perspectives on race and gender.