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Acknowledgements

This book has been some time coming and there are many people who
have read parts or even most of it. In particular, I would like to thank An-
nie Whitehead who encouraged me from the start. Thanks also to Niamh
Moore and Khalid Nadvi who have been reading and commenting on the
research almost from the beginning to the very end. Thanks also to Les Back,
Jane Cowan, Suki Ali, Bev Skeggs, Fiona Ross, Eva Mackey, Justin Byrne,
members of the Feminist Theory Reading Group at Sussex (in particular
Charlotte Adcock, Jude Redaway, Cate Eschle, Jo Littler, Andrea Hammel,
Niamh Moore and Paramjit Rai) and participants at various conferences who
have commented on parts of the work. I would also like to thank colleagues
at Manchester, in particular Laura Doan, Tej Purewal, Virinder Kalra, Nick
Thoburn, Paul Keleman, Sheila Rowbotham, Helen Woods and Darren Wal-
dron.
Thanks also to the Byrne and Nadvi extended families and to my friends
both inside and outside academia.
I would like to thank all those who gave up their time and were prepared
to open some of their lives to me through the interviews. Pursuing inter-
viewees can be a tiring and stressful process, but it was always heartening
to receive so much generosity. Not only did many women welcome me into
their homes and were prepared to be interviewed and taped, but they also
went to some lengths to introduce me to their friends. I hope I have given
their accounts the respect they deserve.
This book is based on research funded by the ESRC.