copyeditor, Wanda Giles, for her vigorous scrutiny of both language and ideas
in the final manuscript.
I thank my husband, Frederick D. Shands, for perceptively and patiently
critiquing more than one draft of my manuscript. I also wish to express my
appreciation to Åsa Gezelius, Chicago, for strong friendship and for her
staunch and spirited support of my research.

I give special thanks to Lynn Porter, keyboard operator, Pam LeRow,
office specialist, and Paula Malone, director, at the University of Kansas Word
Processing Center. Their help through innumerable drafts was invaluable, as
was their invariably friendly and patient instruction while I was learning to
master a different computer program. I am particularly grateful to Lynn Porter
for her professional assistance with the final formatting of this book.

I owe my biggest debt of gratitude to the director of the Women's Studies
Program at the University of Kansas, Professor Sandra L. Albrecht, whose
support has been crucial. Apart from her always stimulating and encouraging
professional discussions and her introducing me to the extraordinarily inspiring
network that is the Women's Studies Program at the University of Kansas, she
and her daughter, Molly, made the year we spent in Lawrence altogether
memorable for me and my family.

In "What Rides the Wind," Marge Piercy has written about the need to
"see and feel the connections," "that sense of being part of a web--a social
network of labor and society, a total community of rock and lizard and bird
and coyote and person, a maze of past from which we issue and the future
which issues from us" (62). Writing this book, I have indeed felt part of a
"network of labor and society," and I have been thinking about that "maze of
past from which we issue." My dedication, however, is to "the future which
issues from us": to my darling, six-year-old Fredrik, and to my precious
goddaughters, Molly, three, and baby Hanna.

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