Tainted Milk: Breastmilk, Feminisms, and the Politics of Environmental Degradation

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank many people for helping me to get this book out to press and helping me to manage my life during the process. First, I want to thank Dr. Stanley Penc, my husband, for being a loving supporter and source of stability throughout this process. Only he could remain so calm while watching me struggle, and while finishing medical school and working on a residency—all with a puppy and two babies in the mix. I would also like to thank my children, Thatcher and Amelia, for being such wonderfully good-natured babies; I could never have gotten so much work done otherwise. I want to thank the Women’s Studies Department at the University at Albany for giving me the opportunity to work and teach alongside them, in particular, the Department Chairs who gave me the opportunity to grow: Vivien Ng, Marjorie Pryse, Judi Barlowe, and Christine Bose. I would also like to extend special thanks to Bonnie Spanier, Judi Barlowe, and Molly Eness for helping me to manage that difficult first draft. I also extend thanks to Tom Cohen for helping me to have the opportunity to work on this book. Next I would like to thank a group of people who supported me in managing my life during this process: my parents George and Veta Boswell who offered support every step of the way; my sisters, nieces, nephews, and brothers-in-law, Randy Brown and Bob Kondelka, Brianna Brown, Kama Koudelka, Hannah, Sarah and Matthew Brown, Bobby, Danny, and Teddy Koudelka; and my in-laws Buddy and Adeline Penc, Tony Penc, and Melissa and Duane Spignardo. I would also like to thank those who offered emotional support: Pat McNamara, Jennifer Moore, Heideh Kabir, Leslie and Valerie Montana, Sandra and Phil Williams, Tim and Judy Trustcott, the staff at Campus Children’s Center, Shealeen Meaney and Laura Kate Boyer. Then there are my other supporters: Suzanne Diamond for watching Amelia and offering other help, and the graduate and undergraduate students at the State University of New York at Albany for filling in with Amelia care and listening to me talk about breastmilk. Also, a thanks to Martha Holzeman. xi Finally, I would like to thank all those at SUNY Press who offered such expert advice, including Jane Bunker, my Senior Editor, who made the whole experience such a pleasure, Laurie Searl, my Senior Production Editor, and Susan Petrie, my Marketing Editor. Finally I would like to thank all those whose research has been instrumental in allowing me to craft this book, and who offered inspiration, including Winona LaDuke, Linda Layne, Judith Galtry, Penny Van Esterick, Rima Apple, Janet Golden, Gabrielle Palmer, Rachel Carson, and Sandra Steingraber. xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...