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Acknowledgments The publication of this study in English goes back in particular to the interest of Geoff Eley in seeing this project come to fruition. I would like to express my great gratitude for his un›agging support in its realization . I also owe a debt of gratitude to the generous ‹nancial support provided by three institutions: the Goethe-Institute Inter Nationes; the Zentraleinheit zur Förderung von Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung at the Free University Berlin, in whose publication series this book ‹rst appeared in Germany; and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where I worked as a visiting DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) professor from 1997 to 2002. Bill Templer has prepared an excellent translation of this study. I am very grateful for his work and for our good cooperation in its completion. ...

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