| This study has rested on the backs of many people besides my own. Foremost are the women who consented to be interviewed, giving their time, spilling their tears, sharing their insights, and opening their minds and hearts. Their collective efforts are the heart of this book and give it its best chance of growing in the hearts of other women. No less important are the women who conducted many of the interviews: Sarah Begus, Betsy Getaz, Ewa Hauser, Jane Sewell, Susanne Siskel, and Andrea Taylor. For enduring the difficulty of approaching strangers, the agony of trying to find addresses in unfamiliar neighborhoods, the fear of standing in front of a group and asking for help, and for believing in the possibility that ordinary women will have wisdom, I thank them. For offering me their insights about what the women said in the interviews and for offering the women they interviewed open, receptive, unjudging ears, I cannot thank them enough. |
| The women we interviewed must remain anonymous, but those who helped us find them, allowing us to explain the project to groups of women within their center or organization, need not. I am particularly grateful to Tom Culotta, Beverly Daniels, Susan Doering, Marcia Hetringer, Mary Jane Lyman, Eleanor Mann, Cindy Monshower, Elizabeth Reiley, Phillip Schmandt, Jane Szczepaniak, and Anita Wormley. The most laborious work was done by several undergraduates who transcribed tapes, searched for references, and performed many editorial chores. For this, I thank Soccoro Alcaden, Sharon Crockett, Lora Holmberg, Jonathan Lewis, Carol Lundquist, and Leslie Nuez. The resourceful, efficient librarians in the Inter- |
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