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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Acknowledgments first must go to the women I interviewed, who generously gave of their time and, most important, themselves to participate in this project. Their commitment to and interest in their own developmental processes made conducting the interviews a genuine pleasure. I also thank everyone who helped me to locate respondents, and whose interest and confidence in my work convinced young women to participate.

This book has benefited greatly from discussions with or comments by Natalie Boero, Nancy Chodorow, Marianne Cooper, Margaret Fitzsimmons, Laura Frame, Mark Harris, Meg Jay, Miranda Hoffman Jung, Maureen Katz, Ann Kring, Betsy Lerner, Daphne de Marneffe, Katharine Marshall, Dawne Moon, Elena Moser, Malkah Notman, Catherine Nye, C. J. Pascoe, Raka Ray, Toby Rogers, Cornelia St. John, and Pilar Strutin-Belinoff—gifted thinkers and clinicians who have seen the relevance of this project to a broader audience. Thanks to Lissa Caldwell, Paula England, and four anonymous reviewers whose careful reading and critiques of the manuscript in earlier drafts improved the book’s theoretical rigor and historical grounding. I feel tremendously grateful to Nancy Chodorow, whose mentorship, training, advice, intellect, and criticism are unparalleled. She has insisted that I can have it all.

Deep gratitude to my editor, Naomi Schneider, whose confidence and interest in this project have been as important as her keen editorial eye.

For their friendship and faith in me, I thank Mary Curtin, Margaret Fitzsimmons, Kaethe Morris Hoffer, Kirsten Miley Howell, Meg Jay, Maureen Kelly, Nancy Latham, Lea Queen, Marcy Reda, Julie Rice, Toby Rogers, Julie Shapiro, Juliana Van Cleve, Patti Wiley, and Cara Zeisloft. Special thanks to Rachel Sherman, my fellow traveler through the sociology department, whose discussions with me about sexuality, gender, and psychological processes generally greatly benefited this work, and whose support and love as a friend have been invaluable, and to Miranda Hoffman Jung, whose emotional and intellectual engagement in all things personal and professional has enriched my life immensely.

Thanks to my parents, Kathleen Bell and Wayne Bell, who have unfailingly supported me and had confidence in me, encouraging me always to pursue work that feeds and engages me. I am grateful for such a gift of freedom. I deeply appreciate my sister, Alison Bell, whose interest in and conversations with me about twenty-something women’s sexuality have greatly benefited this work. Thanks to Kathryn Gronke and Bob Gronke, who have enthusiastically embraced my triumphs both personal and professional.

Profound thanks to Alex for taking so many risks with me.

Thanks to Vivian and Gloria for simply being themselves.

This research was made possible by fellowships from the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council, funded by the Ford Foundation; the U.C. Berkeley sociology department; the American Psychoanalytic Association; the Stoller Foundation; and the Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies National Fellowship Foundation. I am grateful to all of these funding sources.