... The questionnaire below has been prepared by the Task Force for International Women in American Studies. This Task Force was appointed in 1998 by the President of the ASA, in recognition of the difficulties that scholars outside the U.S. have in engaging in the study of the U.S., and the special difficulties often faced by women who are peripheral to the networks of scholars in their own countries and regions, and whose gender-related work may not be accorded full credit in their home countries. ...