Acknowledgments

We owe thanks to many people for contributions to this work at various stages of its development, both in connection with the 1991 Institute supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and in the development of the anthology itself. First, we thank the NEH for its confidence in the importance of the Institute and its generous support of the project. We especially appreciate the supportive assistance of our NEH program officer, Barbara Ashbrook, who provided highly valuable advice in the preparation of our grant proposal and offered support and wise counsel during a visit to the Institute and in many other communications. We also thank particularly those at the University of Cincinnati who cooperated in the administration and logistics of the Institute.

We are very grateful to all those who contributed to the Institute as faculty, participants, and guest lecturers. Hilda L. Smith served as director of the Institute and one of the three core faculty, together with Berenice Carroll and David Grimsted. The participants (the majority of whom were teaching women's studies, intellectual history, or political theory courses) made essential contributions of knowledge and critique throughout the discussions, in both formal and informal settings. Guest lecturers added insights in selected areas: Alice Deck (African American and African women writers), Kathryn Kish Sklar and David Noble (Progressive-era intellectual trends), J. G. A. Pocock (writings of women historians during the eighteenth century), Barbara Ramusack (women’s standing within the professions and the women’s movement of early twentieth-century India), Mikiso Hane (Chinese and Japanese women thinkers at the turn of the twentieth century), Joanne Meyerowitz (a reassessment of the image of women in popular culture during the 1950s), and Ann Michellini (an assessment of classics as a discipline which had left little room for women scholars within its ranks). We would also like to thank the then staff of the Center for Women’s Studies at the University of Cincinnati—in particular Elizabeth Emrich, Michele Morgan, and Amy Myers —who worked tirelessly to organize and duplicate materials during the Institute and dealt cheerfully with difficult logistical arrangements and the needs of Institute participants who came from institutions throughout the United States and abroad.

We owe thanks to many assistants and friends who contributed to the preparation of the manuscript at various points in time, especially to Michele Morgan, who designed and copyedited a first draft of the collection, and to Beth Harley, Sheri Cole, Jane Ziki, Anna Suranyi, Kathleen Saunders, Priya Kurian, Ruchi Anand, River Kamer, Phyllis Swanson, Susan Moynihan, Kerri Maple, Chun-hui Ho, Danielle Bolduc, and Christine Braunberger for their indispensable and painstaking help in entering, formatting, and editing text or assisting in library searches. Throughout the development and preparation of the work, Clinton F. Fink contributed generously of his time and knowledge to discussions, editing, indexing, proofreading, library searches, securing reprint permissions, and, last but not least, helping us to laugh now and then.

A number of libraries and archives have provided essential assistance to this work. We thank especially Page xii →the Langsam Library at the University of Cincinnati; the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Library at Purdue University; the University Library, the Women’s Studies/WID Library, the Rare Book Room, and the Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the British Library; the Widener Library; and the Folger Library. We also thank the Women’s Studies Center and History Department at the University of Cincinnati, the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Women’s Studies Program and Political Science Department at Purdue University for their support of this endeavor.

Finally, we are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for Indiana University Press, who made constructive suggestions on the manuscript, and to the editors at the press, particularly to Terry L. Cagle for her meticulous copy-editing, and to Joan Catapano for her patience, assistance, and support.