Wendy Kozol is professor of comparative American studies at Oberlin College. She is the author of Life's America: Family and Nation in Postwar Photojournalism and has coedited two anthologies (with Wendy S. Hesford): Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real" and Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminism, and the Politics of Representation.