Preface<br >This anthology began as a joint project with Rosalind Pollack Petchesky. At<br >a very early stage， when we had only just begun to discuss what might be<br >included， she had to leave me alone with the project because of her new and<br >very demanding job. I am keenly aware that the benefit of her intellectual rigor<br >and knowledge， combined with the mutual learning that can occur in such a<br >team project， would have made this a better book.<br > My own thinking on this subject， as reflected in my first essay and in<br >the choice of articles， has been influenced not only by Ros Petchesky but<br >also by many other friends and colleagues with whom I have discussed these<br >issues， at levels of abstraction rangthg from a discussion about "the state"<br >with graduate students here at the University of Wisconsin to mutterings about<br >the daily news. I would like particularly to thank Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall，<br >Johanna Brenner， Lisa Brush， Elizabeth Ewen， Smart Ewen， Martha Fineman，<br >Nancy Fraser， Ed Friedman， Susan Stanford Friedman， Alien Hunter， Nancy<br >lsenberg， Alice Kessler-Harris， Judith Walzer Leavitt， Gerda Lerner， Sara<br >McLanaban， Nancy MacLean， Ann Orloff， Kathryn Sklar， Susan Smith， Susan<br >Traverse， Susan Ware， and Ann Withom. To some authors whose work is in-<br >cluded here t have special debts: Nancy Fraser， Jane Jenson， and Gwendolyn<br >Mink rewrote their articles for this anthology. Elizabeth Schneider allowed me<br >to cut her article drastically. Jane Jenson allowed me to lop off a theoretical<br >introduction that was very dear to her and turned herself into an American<br >historian at my pleading. Teresa Amott produced her essay especially for this<br >collection. Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward， unintentionally， gave me，<br >in their impressive oeuvre on welfare， not only a model of committed scholar-<br >ship but an argument against which I was able to develop my own feminist<br >analysis.<br >