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Kathleen Barry, Professor Emerita of Penn State University, feminist

activist and sociologist is the author of the new book, Unmaking War,

Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and

Ourselves.  Her first book, Female Sexual Slavery, launched an

international movement against trafficking in human beings and was

followed by Prostitution of Sexuality: The Global Sexual Exploitation

of Women with a new legal model for treating sexual exploitation as a

violation of human rights.

Helen Benedict, a professor at Columbia University, is the author of

several novels and nonfiction books, including the influential Virgin

or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes and, in 2009, The Lonely

Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq. She has written

dozens of articles about women soldiers and her new novel about the Iraq

War, Sand Queen, will be published this summer. The Lonely Soldier

helped to inspire the recent class action suit against the Pentagon on

behalf of women soldiers who've been abused.