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Acknowledgments I would like to express my gratitude to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, for permission to use Hiram S. Powers’s The Greek Slave (Gift of Charles F. Bound). Special thanks go to Ruth Janson, the museum’s coordinator of rights and reproductions . Thanks go to the Field Museum Library Photo Archives, Chicago, for permission to use The Women’s Building, as well as to Jerice Barrios, rights and reproductions coordinator at the museum. Finally, I would like to thank the Boston Public Library for permission to use the E. E. Bond photograph “Weavers of Speech.” Special thanks go to Aaron Schmidt. I am grateful to Dave Swanson for permission to use his photographs of the Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. Dave and his wife, Penny Sweitzer, were kind enough to make a trip to Washington, D.C., to take photographs of the monument. Thanks to the staff at the Workingmen’s Institute, New Harmony, Indiana; to the staff at the Library of Congress; and, finally, to the Pennsylvania State University Library and the York campus. I extend thanks to Routledge as part of Taylor and Francis for permission to use portions of my essay “Weaving and Unweaving Public Woman: Contingencies of Oppositional Discourse,” published in the Atlantic Journal of Communica tion 14, no. 3 (2006): 141–55 (http://informaworld.com/hajc), and for permission to use portions of my essay “Weaving and Unweaving the Rights of Public Woman: The Case of Telephone Operators at the Turn of the Twentieth Century ,” in Oppositional Discourses and Democracies, edited by Michael Huspek (New York: Routledge, 2010), 118–31. I am indebted to the generosity of many who have been my trail angels. It is a bit of hiking lore on the Appalachian Trail that at the right time a person will xii / Acknowledgments appear and provide the weary hiker with food or drink to sustain the physical body or a poem and a song to sustain the spirit over the rough ground. There are occasions, too, on the trail when the angel morphs into nature, like the moon and the evening star, to lighten the load across the miles. If you’ve been out there, you know what I mean. My trail angels include Michelle Ballif, Barbara A. Biesecker , Isaac Catt, Celeste Condit, Deborah Eicher-Catt, Diane Davis, Lisa Ede, Eric Erickso, Robert Gaines, Cheryl Glenn, Cecilia Heydl-Cortinez, Nancy (Sutton ) Holzworth, Jack Kearns for his beautiful stone work, John Lucaites, Andrea Lunsford, Robert McCann, John Poulakos, Takis Poulakos, Janice Hocker Rushing , Victor J. Vitanza, Carole Wagner, Kathleen Welch, Valerie White, and Myrt Whiteley, as well as my good Shepherd “Bones.” My heartfelt gratitude goes to the anonymous reviewers of the manuscript and to The University of Alabama Press. I extend appreciation to Nkanyiso Mpofu for countless conversations. I am especially grateful to Mari Lee Mifsud for our collaborations. And to Thomas S. Frentz, who has been a great teacher, mentor, and friend for over thirty years. Finally, to my husband, Jerry Caslow, for his encouragement, always at the right time. For all this and more, I am blessed. ...