Acknowledgments

Grants from several institutions have contributed to this book. I first began to think about this material while conducting related research as a fellow, first of the American Council of Learned Societies (1988–89) and then of the Fulbright Islamic Civilizations Program (1989–90). A research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1995–96) for work on Zaynab Fawwāz (research that is ongoing) contributed to the project, as did a second Fulbright fellowship (1998–99) for work on masculinity and the woman question. A Middle East Research Competition fellowship (1990, 1995) from the Ford Foundation allowed me to work on the contemporary material. A grant from the Research Board of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1994), helped me acquire additional material. I thank all of these institutions.

I am grateful to more people in Cairo than I can name. To Hagg Muhammad Sadiq and Hagg Mustafa Sadiq, I cannot adequately express my gratitude for the help in finding hard-to-access material. None of my work would be the same without it. What makes this working relationship even more precious is the friendship that has grown between my family and the entire Sadiq clan (including the cat!). I also owe a great debt of gratitude to the personnel of the Periodicals Room in the Egyptian National Library for their cheerful help. Over a few months in 1990, Ola Seif was an indispensable and creative research assistant, and pleasurable company, too. Cairo friends have been amazing in their support over the course of this project. John Swanson, as always, has been wonderfully generous with time, space, and emotional support. I also want to single out Sahar Tawfiq, Ibtihal Salem, Layla Marmoush, Amina O'Kane, and Rianne Tamis, although the list could go on and on.

Many colleagues and friends have read, listened to, commented on, and/or contributed to parts of this manuscript in its various incarnations. For invariably helpful and kind critiques, I want to thank Lila Abu-Lughod, Gaber Asfour, Margot Badran, Liz Bohls, Karen Booth, Don Crummey, Ken Cuno, Ginny Danielson, Alice Deck, Suad Joseph, Hilary Kilpatrick, Zachary Lockman, Hoda Lutfi, Sonya Michel, Val Moghadam, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Cynthia Nelson, David Prochaska, Hoda Elsadda, Don Reid, Zohreh Sullivan, John Swanson, Mohamed Tavakoli, Mary C. Wilson, and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. I also thank the University of Illinois Cultural Studies Group. Joel Beinin and Eve Troutt Powell were assiduous readers for the University of California Press, and I am grateful for their patience and their suggestions. Many friends in Champaign-Urbana have shown supportive kindness at the right moments; I want to single out Liz Bohls, Eren Giray, Kristen Dean-Grossmann, Sharon Irish, Cindy Mann, Nilofar Shambayati, and my fabulous and steadfast reading group (Nancy Abelmann, Frances Jacobson Harris, Jo Kibbee, Sally McMahan, Bea Nettles, Jeanie Taylor, Carol Spindel, and Karen Winter-Nelson). I owe a great debt to Lynne Withey, who for longer than I want to admit has encouraged this project patiently and with unfailing thoughtfulness and skill. I am grateful to Scott Norton and Lynn Meinhardt for shepherding the book through production, to Susan Ecklund for her careful and courteous editing, and to staff members of the University of California Press, who have been unfailingly pleasant and efficient.

Finally, I want to thank my children, Paul A. Cuno-Booth and Carrie M. Cuno-Booth, for their insights on Jeanne d'Arc, and equally for never letting me forget the centrality of domestic life and the importance of humility (“Mommy, you're still working on that1 book?”). And to Ken, more thank-yous than I can express for encouragement and forbearance, and for that ultimate act of love, giving up your computer at crucial moments.