Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments When a decade passes between the time a project is first imagined and its completion, the author unavoidably owes thanks to a great many people. For their encouragement and guidance at various stages of research and writing, I am incredibly grateful to the following individuals: Leila Rupp, Eileen Boris, Katherine Jellison, Erika Rappaport, Laura Kalman, Sandra Dawson, Patricia Cline Cohen, Jane Sherron De Hart, Laury Oaks, Elizabeth Currans, Jessica Caldwell O’Keefe, Sharon Doetsch-­ Kidder, Carrie Pitzulo, Michael Osborne, Warren Wood, April Haynes, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, David Schuster, and Matthew Sutton. Elaine Tyler May and Miriam Reumann kindly and carefully read the entire manuscript twice. I am extremely appreciative of the advice and guidance they o≠ered. The research for this project was funded by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation ; the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara (ucsb); ucsb History Associates; ucsb A∞liates; the Department of History and the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University; the ucsb Graduate Division; and the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at ucsb. A summer grant from the Louisiana State University Council lewis—final pages ix x acknowledgments on Research made it possible for me to complete the final revisions to the manuscript. A large portion of the medical publications used in this project were made available through ucsb’s interlibrary loan program. I do not know the names of all the librarians and sta≠ members who tracked down, scanned, and e-­ mailed articles to me (although I do have quite a few images of your hands and fingers), but I am grateful to each and every one of you for making this project possible. Similarly, the assistance and advice of archivists at several libraries and manuscript collections has been indispensable. This is especially true of the archivists at the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University; the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri, Columbia; and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University, Bloomington (iu). This project also produced several conference papers, and the final version benefited greatly from comments by Carol Groneman, Marilyn Boxer, David Serlin, and the audiences at the Western Association of Women Historians , the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, the American Historical Association, and the Women’s Sexualities conference at iu. The advice I received from scholars at these and other conferences has been invaluable. Thank you especially to Karen Lystra, Carole Srole, Leslie Reagan , and Jessica Weiss. My colleagues in the Department of History and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Louisiana State University were especially encouraging as I finished the final stages of this book. I am very thankful to have been so warmly welcomed into their fold. Portions of this manuscript initially appeared in the Journal of Women’s History; I am grateful to the anonymous reviewers of that article for their feedback. At unc Press, Sian Hunter, Beth Lassiter, and Jay Mazzocchi have been immensely helpful (and patient) while guiding me through the publication process. A few individuals need special recognition. For my initial interest in history , I am indebted to my high school teachers, David Bruening and Ken Matuszak. Thank you to Danielle Swiontek for our weekly chats at Mommy and Me Happy Hour, to Renee Geary and Alex Liosatos for our annual retreats, and to Megan Macnaughtan and Aaron Smith for setting up the much-­ needed and greatly appreciated Sanity Fund. I am also forever grateful to Dr. Susanne Ramos for the safe delivery of my son. Sally Gogol, the Orfalea Family Children’s Center at ucsb, the lsu Child Care Center, and various friends enabled me to work with the certainty that my child was in lewis—final pages x acknowledgments xi good hands. Most especially, thank you to Sandra Dawson for her friendship, her medical and historical knowledge, her assistance at my son’s birth, and her willingness to babysit at any time, day or night. Her husband, Patrick Dawson, also deserves special thanks. Last, but certainly not least, I must thank my family. My parents, Henry and Frances Herbst, and my sister Kathleen Herbst o≠ered unwavering enthusiasm as well as financial resources to support my research and writing. My sisters Amy and Sarah Herbst also helped with babysitting and comic relief. My mother-­ in-­ law, Eileen Lewis, provided the physical space as well as child care and...