The “Women” in Women's Studies

shirley j. yee is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Women Studies at the University of Washington. Her most recent publications include Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828–1860 (University of Tennessee Press, 1992) and “Finding a Place: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the Dilemmas of Black Migration to Canada, 1850–1870” in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 18.3 (1997). She is currently working on a comparative history of Black, Chinese, and Irish women in New York City, 1860–1930.