Perfectionism and Contemporary Feminist Values

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book has been a long time in the making, and it has bene¤ted greatly from many people’s help along the way. I am sure that neither Professor Susan Moller Okin nor Professor Mark Kelman had any idea of the magnitude or duration of the advising roles they were taking on when they began working with me while I was still in college. Susan Okin has both challenged and encouraged me on this project from its early stages as a Ph.D. dissertation to its present incarnation. Mark Kelman has read more drafts of this work than I wish to remind him of and was crucial in helping me structure (and restructure ) the work as it evolved over the years. I am grateful to both of them for their longstanding mentoring and friendship. Professors Debra Satz, Luis Fraga, and Margaret Jane Radin all helped me considerably in formulating the core ideas of the book. Professors Alan Wertheimer, Andrew Koppelman, Sherry Colb and several anonymous reviewers provided me with extremely helpful comments that motivated signi ¤cant revisions and improvements to the project at very different stages. The Stanford Humanities Center, where I was a pre-doctoral fellow in 1995– 96, provided me with the time, space, nutrition, and intellectual stimulation I needed to write the ¤rst draft of this book. This project has also bene¤ted greatly from the insights and encouragement of several friends and family members. I would like to thank Jennifer DiToro for engaging in many thoughtful conversations about the project and Jennifer Cuneo for reading and carefully commenting on several drafts. Cara Robertson has also read and provided careful criticisms of multiple drafts of this book. I am grateful for her insights and also for her un®agging encouragement , optimism, and good humor. I would like to thank my mother, Ellen Yuracko, for being my ¤rst role model; my father, William Yuracko, for being my ¤rst editor, and my sisters Kris Anderson and Kathy Yuracko for demonstrating vividly the diversity of roles encompassed within a good life. I would also like to thank my nephew Brennan Anderson for sharing in my excitement about this book and my niece Shelby Anderson for sharing with me her excitement about the world. Several people have been instrumental in the ¤nal transformation of this manuscript into a book. I would like to thank Sara Kennedy for her excellent research assistance at the tail end of this project. I would also like to thank Susanna Sturgis for her careful copyediting of the book and Marilyn Grobschmidt and Jane Lyle of Indiana University Press for giving the manuscript a public life. Finally, I would like to thank Michael Barsa for engaging in many hours of discussion about every part of this book and for his deft and patient editing of each chapter. I am deeply grateful to Michael for making, through his presence , both this project, and my life, immeasurably better than they would otherwise be. x Acknowledgments Perfectionism and Contemporary Feminist Values ...