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Acknowledgments The editors wish to thank, above all, Dacia Maraini. Thanks are also due to Lucia Lermond for both financial and editorial support and to the Vassar College Research Committee for its generous contributions toward the preparation and the publication of this work They also thank Anthony J. Tamburri for his commitment to the publication ofthis collection and Susan Y Clawson for her skillful copyediting. The editors are also grateful to all the contributors, who supported this project with their expertise and enthusiasm. Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld offers personal thanks to John Ahem for constant encouragement, and to Lisa Paravisini for advice in the process of coediting. Ada Testaferri thanks Sebastiana Marino for her intelligent and sensitive translation of "De-tecting Voci," which appears in this volume. "Reflections on the Logical and illogical Bodies ofMy Sexual Compatriots," by Dacia Maraini, first appeared, in different form, as "Riflessioni sui corpilogici e illogici delle mie compagne di sesso," the introduction to La bionda, La bruna e L'asino: con gli occhi di oggi sugli anni settanta e ottanta (Milan: Rizzoli, 1987). The editors express their thanks to Rizzoli Editore for permission to include the revised and translated version in this volume. ix ...

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