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THIS PROJECT has been possible with the support of a community of scholars who critiqued, applauded, nudged, edited, and otherwise helped me to turn my general ideas about women and space into this book. My writing partners Julian Carter, Zeynep Kezer, Marie-Alice L’Heureux, and especially Sibel Zandi-Sayek helped me to find the arguments in my story. The women of the Critical Feminist Inquiry Working Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and my fellow participants in the workshop “Taking Gender Seriously: Engendering Social Analysis”pushed my analysis and encouraged me to write for all feminist scholars. Conversations with Erik Klinenberg and Neil Brenner allowed me to place this project in the larger discourse of urban studies. Mary Ryan, Dell Upton, and Paul Groth were in on this project at its inception, and their insightful comments improved it in innumerable ways. The comments of Sarah Deutsch, a reader for the University of Minnesota Press, were invaluable.Abigail Van Slyck is the most generous and thoughtful editor I could imagine: her detailed feedback and provocative suggestions allowed me to turn this into the book that I hoped it could be. The Bancroft Library Study Award and the Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library both supported my research financially and gave me the opportunity ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix to immerse myself in the collections of these two institutions. A Junior Faculty Fellowship from the Boston University Humanities Foundation gave me precious time to complete my manuscript. The reference staff and archivists at the Bancroft , the Huntington, the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, the San Francisco History Room of the San Francisco Public Library, and the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley have been a joy to work with; none of this would have been possible without their help. I also thank my research assistants Jessica Roscio Ploetz and Karen Robbins. My parents, Bill and Ellen Sewell, gave me love, support, and their expert points of view throughout this process, for which I am extremely grateful. A number of cats, including Max, Photon, Inky, Dudley, and Bob, gave me love and companionship and shredded my drafts. Most important, my husband, Andrew Johnston, lived with this project from start to finish, supporting me through thick and thin, including my mother’s death and the birth of our son, Benjamin. I thank him with all my heart. x Acknowledgments ...

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