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Acknowledgments I am indebted to many people whose intellectual and personal support made this book possible. I first recognize the Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program at Virginia Tech for fostering the interdisciplinary foundation of this work. Special thanks go to Tim Luke for mentoring me throughout my years there and to the present. My gratitude also goes to the Women’s Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for giving me an opportunity to focus on this project for a year. I am grateful to my colleagues in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Riverside, for supporting my work and energizing me with their outstanding feminist scholarship. Being in their company deepened my commitment to integrate feminist theory into this book. The research and writing for this book were financially supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center; the doctoral fellowship program hosted by the Women’s Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara; funding provided by Virginia Tech, the University of California , Riverside, and the University of California Regents; and the American Fellowship Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grant awarded by the Association of American University Women. Archival research was assisted by librarians at the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York and the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. I thank all those who read parts of the manuscript or attended my talks at various stages of this project and gave me invaluable feedback. They include Eileen Boris, Amalia Cabezas, Piya Chatterjee, Ben Cohen, Crissy Crockett, Gary Downey, Christine Gailey, Wyatt Galusky, Sherine Hafez, Bernice Hausman, Tammy Ho, Ann Laberge, Jane Lehr, Piyush Mathur, Martha McCaughey, Juliet McMullin, Jenifer Najera and the members of the dissertation fellow writing group, Laury Oaks, Jody Roberts, Christina xvi Acknowledgments Schewenkel, Banu Subramaniam, Charis Thompson, Gerald Toal, and Margurite Waller. Saul Halfon was especially generous with his help on earlier iterations of this work. Thanks also to Jan Roselle for her careful reading and input on the manuscript at its final stage. I am particularly grateful to Adele Clarke and Carole McCann for their extensive feedback. This book grew in depth and breadth thanks to their expertise and their insightful and generous advice. My appreciation also goes to Marguerite Avery of the MIT Press, series editors of Inside Technology, and the rest of the editorial team. I thank as well the anonymous reviewers whose thoughtful comments greatly helped improve this book. Finally, I thank my family, who made many sacrifices while I devoted a significant portion of my time and energy to this project. My parents have been unwaveringly supportive even though they have not been able to see their grandchildren as often as they would like. My daughters, Claire and Hana, brought me joy (as well as pain sometimes) and reminded me not to lose sight of the important things in life. And my heartfelt thanks go to Preston for his patience, love, and support. ...

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