V * WOMEN'S STUDIES AT WISCONSIN
under often trying circumstances. Jacqueline Ross, Women's Studies Consortium
director from 1989 to 1999, not only came up with the idea for this book
in the first
place and procured the funding, but also read several versions of the manuscript,
offered suggestions for revision, and drew on her long experience with women's
studies in Wisconsin to clarify many of the events the book describes. Phyllis
Holman Weisbard, the Consortium's Women's Studies Librarian, has read nearly
every draft of every chapter, spent innumerable hours in meetings and discussions
about the book's progress, searched through library catalogues and archives
to con-
firm historical details and sources, supplied information for footnotes,
and, perhaps
most valuable of all, listened to me vent.