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acknowledgments T his book is truly a product of my entire academic trajectory and political journey, and was born from the support, inspiration, and intelligence of many. I began writing about reproductive politics fifteen years ago when I researched my first paper on Chicanas and abortion during my undergraduate years at Pomona College. Joanne Badagliacco, Raymond Buriel, and Gilbert Cadena all provided generous mentorship as I first explored the terrain of race relations, Chicano studies, and reproductive politics. Margaret Anderson, whom I met through the American Sociological Association’s Minority Opportunity Summer Training Program, was an initial and continuing source of encouragement as I dedicated myself to a professional career in sociology, and I am grateful for her tender insistence that there was a place for me in the academy. My doctoral work in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan convinced me of the interconnection between reproductive and racial politics. I am grateful to Tomás Almaguer, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Donald Deskins, and Silvia Pedraza for their exceptional training in this field and their encouragement to develop my thinking in this area. My dissertation committee was an outstanding group of scholars with whom I was honored to work. George Sánchez provided the initial encouragement to begin researching and writing about the case of Madrigal v. Quilligan, and Karin Martin and Renee Anspach provided acute theoretical insights and consistently reminded me of how this project worked. To Sonya Rose and Tom ás Almaguer I owe my utmost gratitude; their patient faith that I could see this project through made their generous guidance even more humbling. As is often the case, my graduate student colleagues provided my most crucial support system throughout my years at Michigan, and it is to those with whom I shared both academic and “real life” lessons that I am most indebted. I’d particularly like to thank Moon-kie Jung, Christine Garza, Amanda Lewis, Hyun-Joo Oh, Teri Rosales, Tyrone Forman, Nicole Pagán, T4292.indb xv T4292.indb xv 7/27/07 7:22:30 AM 7/27/07 7:22:30 AM fertile matters xvi Susan Chimonas, and Gloria Martínez for helping me to walk toward the Ph.D. During a year as a Dissertation Fellow at the Chicana/Latina Research Center at the University of California at Davis I found a generous home in the Department of Chicano Studies. Muchísimas gracias a Beatriz Pesquera, Yvette Flores Ortiz, and Lorena Oropeza for opening their arms and bringing me into a vibrant community. Carole Joffe and Jim Cramer, in the Department of Sociology, also encouraged my knowledge of reproductive politics and demography, and generously read parts of the manuscript. Finally, Adeljíza Sosa-Riddell, for all of your knowledge, vision, apoyo y ánimo, I cannot thank you enough. Your fearless commitments to Latina reproductive politics and student-centered education is an inspiration. To you, and the other early scholars of Latina reproductive politics (Adelaida Del Castillo , Irís Lopez, Helen Rodriguez-Trías, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez), I am greatly indebted. I was able to complete additional research for this book and bring it to completion through the aid of two post-doctoral research fellowships that provided uninterrupted time to dedicate to the manuscript. While a Chancellor ’s Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley, under the sponsorship of Kristen Luker, I also received engaged feedback on my research from Troy Duster, Patricia Macias, Raka Ray, Michael Burawoy, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, and Davíd Hernández. Un abrazo a Laura Enríquez, who took particular interest in me when she didn’t have to and helped me negotiate the job market as well as make decisions about the publication of this book. Meeting and working with Aída Hurtado has been a true blessing in my life. As I completed this book during my early years as an assistant professor , her consistent mentorship and exhortations to “Write!” was truly sustaining . I am grateful to Aída and the University of California at Santa Cruz for providing an institutional home while I completed my manuscript. I would also like to thank Patricia Zavella, who encouraged me to research Chicana reproductive politics early in my graduate training and has read several parts of the manuscript since then. MayleiBlackwell,AdeleClark,Moon-KieJung,JanetShim,KetaMiranda, Laurie Schaffner, Gayatri Reddy, Amanda Lewis, Nilda Flores-González, Gabriela Sandoval, and Lorena García have all read chapters of the manuscript and...

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