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Acknowledgments We thank the contributors to this volume who responded to a Call for Papers that we issued in 1998. Their political and intellectual investments in social justice made this volume possible. We are also very grateful to all the feminist and antiracist scholars whose work has guided us, including but not limited to scholars in the following fields: gender and development studies, global feminisms, international feminisms, and transnational feminisms. Although we have met few of the feminists and antiracist scholars working in transnational feminisms we have been inspired and nurtured by their research and activism. We received institutional support from the following during this project and thank our colleagues at the following institutions: Departments of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. Winddance Twine would like to thank the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the participants in the 1999–2000 Sawyer Seminar at the University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which served as an intellectual home during the final editing of this volume. Winddance Twine also thanks the following colleagues and friends on both sides of the Atlantic for all the innumerable ways in which they continue to support her research (including the meals, rides to and from airports, lively debates, and unconditional friendship). In this vein Twine thanks (in England): Nelista Cuffy, Caroline Churchill, Amelia Dowdye, Rachel Hunte, Mary Hunte, Bernice Bennett, Owen Brown, Jane Brown, Mandy Burke, Gerry Burke, Sharon Dawkins, Janet Powell, and Cheryl Weathers; (in Ireland): Michael Smyth; (in South Africa): Julia Maxted and Abebe Zegeye; (in the United States): Ingrid Banks, William T. Bielby, Denise Bielby, Karen Brodkin, William Darity Jr., Troy Duster, Maria Franklin, Ruth Frankenberg, Arnell Hinkle, Kristin Luker, Mary Romero, Beth Schneider, Gay Seidman, Judy Taylor, Becky Thompson, Irma McClaurin, xi Ruth Mostern, Kenneth Mostern, Pedro Noguera, Darrel Robinson, KumKum Bhavnani, John Foran, Avery Gordon, Gail Hanlon, Ara Wilson, and John Wolfe. Kathleen Blee thanks students in Feminist Theory and Gender, Race, Class seminars at the University of Pittsburgh as well as Lisa Brush, Kipp Dawson, Kathleen DeWalt, Patrick Doreian, Irene Frieze, Pam Goldman, Maurine Greenwald, Carol McAllister, Janet Montelaro, Marilyn Patete, Verta Taylor, Eileen VanSchaik, and Eileen Yacknin. We would like to thank Despina Papazoglou Gimbel who, once again, worked diligently and with much patience and professionalism to keep this book on track. We owe Ms. Gimbel more gratitude than can be expressed here. Finally Winddance Twine dedicates this book to her family who make the impossible possible for her each day: Mamie Lois Twine, Paul Christopher Twine, and Jonathan Warren. Kathleen dedicates it to Pam, Eli, and Sophie. france winddance twine Santa Barbara, California and kathleen m. blee Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania October 2000 xii Acknowledgments ...

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