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vii This book is the result of our engagement with the theme Gender, Race, and Militarization through a vital program organized by the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Oregon. We are grateful to the Carlton Raymond and Wilberta Ripley Savage Endowment in International Relations and Peace for funding the program’s activities, which contributed to generating many of the ideas and critical conversations expressed in the book. We thank the presenters and participants at the October conference on Gender, Race, and Militarization and at related colloquia and public talks held at the University of Oregon. Some of these events were cosponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, the departments of Anthropology and Sociology, the Multicultural Center, and the Women’s Center, as well as by the community group Progressive Response. Presenters included a number of authors in this book and other scholars , activists, and public intellectuals such as Lakshmi Chaudhry, Hilary Charlesworth, M. Jacqui Alexander, Monique Balbuena, Lamia Karim, Carol Van Houten, and Shaul Cohen. Their insights and participation helped shape the vision for this book. We also thank several people who provided assistance and support at different stages of the project, including CSWS staff members Shirley Marc, Peggy McConnell, Judith Musick, and Stephanie Wood, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program office manager Sabena Stark, as well as core faculty Judith Raiskin, Lynn Fujiwara, and Elizabeth Reis. They participated in various ways with the planning and implementation of program activities, such as colloquia , keynote presentations, courses, a visiting professorship, film series, and a conference on the mentioned theme. Katherine Kowalski and Elizabeth Doggett, graduate assistants at the University at Albany, SUNY, helped with book-related logistics, and Deborah LaFond, women’s studies librarian at the same institution, traced some sources. We are also grateful to production editor Marilyn Campbell and particularly to copyeditor Kathryn Gohl for their excellent editorial work on this book. Finally, we thank Adi Hovav, social sciences editor at Rutgers University Press, for her vision, encouragement, and guidance throughout this journey. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PRELIMS.qxd 5/28/08 7:29 PM Page vii PRELIMS.qxd 5/28/08 7:29 PM Page viii ...