Bettina F. Aptheker is an activist, historian, and professor of women?s studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has taught one of the country?s largest and most inflluential Introduction to Women?s Studies courses for twenty-four years. She is the author of The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (Cornell University Press, 1997) and Tapestries of Life: Women?s Work, Women?s Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (University of Massachusetts Press, 1982). She lives in Santa Cruz with her longtime partner, Kate Miller.