Psyche of Feminism: Sand, Colette, Sarraute

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The Psyche of Feminism began to take shape while I was a graduate student of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton. I thank the professors there who patiently guided and challenged the development of my thinking: Chris Fynsk, Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Tom Keenan, and Steven David Ross. The work could not have been completed without the equally iinportant, sustained encouragelnent and critique offered by Anne Berger of Cornell University, nor without the generous reading of an early version of a chapter by Joan Copjec of SUNY Buffalo. I wish to thank as well the University of New Hampshire for its support, especially Dean Marilyn Hoskin and the College of Liberal Arts, Provost David Hiley and the Office of the Provost, and the Humanities Program. The friends and colleagues who shared with me their criticiS1l1 , conversation, and wit have my cheerful gratitude. I would like to thank, in particular, David Andrew, John Archer, Linda Belau, Rebecca Belfield, Donna and Warren Brown, Ed Cameron, Matt Cory, Bruce and HeloIse Fink, Pamela Genova, Robin Hackett, Brian Jacobs, Aurora Hermida Rufz, Aida Hozic, Sean Kelly, Kiarina Kordela, Dragan Kujundzic, I\1ike Monti, Georgeann Murphy, Rosy Nimroodi, David Ost, Patti Palen, Max Pensky, Angelika Rauch-Rapaport, David and Susan Richman, Charlie Shepherdson, Connie Wortman, Emily Zakin, and Ewa Ziarek. In different ways, they each brought questions of the psyche home for me. My family, too, was a dependable source of support. Long before I began to think about this project my late father, Edward Metcalfe Peebles, had given me the loving gift of his confidence, which continues to sustain Ine. I also thank my mother, Ellen Moloney Peebles, and my siblings John, Mary Ellen, Ted, and Leslie. Most of all, I am fortunate to be able to thank Petar Ranladanovic, to whom this book and much else besides is dedicated. xv ...