ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The personal debts accrued while writing a book are always enormous The influence of the many feminist scholars and activists who crossed my path—in person or in print—during the conception and writing of this book cannot be overemphasized In more than one fractious situation they kept me sane, entertained, and impassioned Without Charlene Senn, Meredith Smye, Mary Laushway Davis, Neville Davis, Miriam Stanford, Jeanne Perreault, Susan Rudy Dorscht, Susan Bennett, Garrie Ellender, Georgia Farrell, Kathleen Foreman, Jeffrey Goffin, Roberta Hamilton, and Susan Irving the task would have been joyless, and probably impossible Professionally, Susan Bassnett, Michael Booth, Clive Barker, J.S.Bratton, Jim Davis, Jane Steadman, Richard Foulkes, Louis Knafla, David Mayer, Thais Morgan, Thomas Postlewait, and Joseph Roach commissioned, read, or responded to portions of the work in its many manifestations, and I thank them for it Peter Davis saw the book through to completion, and in so doing was more important, in every way, than he realizes Every effort has been made to obtain permission to reproduce copyright material If any proper acknowledgement has not been made, or permission not received, we would invite copyright holder to inform us of the oversight x