Alvia Golden, Sara Krulwich, and Jane Randolph heard many of the stories that went into this book and reminded me to laugh. Paxton, Susan Pedersen, Reinhard Rürup, Christoph Sachsse, Sharon Ullman, Judith Walkowitz, Steven Welch, and Linda Zerilli. At key points, I have received additional assistance and guidance from James Diehl, Gerald Feldman, Geoffrey Field, Estelleįreedman, Ute Frevert, Karin Hausen, Susan Mann, Gwendolyn Mink, Karen Offen, Robert O. My friendship with Carroll Smith-Rosenberg greatly enriched my scholarship she continues to offer me a model of intellectual integrity and generosity that would be difficult to match. Along the way, all took time from their own work to read and comment extensively on mine. The years in New York also allowed me to become friends with David Abraham, Victoria de Grazia, Ellen Ross, Ioannis Sinanoglou, and Marilyn Young. Individually and collectively, the scholarly efforts of these historians have profoundly influenced my research. In addition, Atina Grossmann, Deborah Hertz, Marion Kaplan, and Molly Nolan consistently provided support and enthusiasm for my work. I remain grateful for the responses, reactions, critical readings, and friendship of Renate Bridenthal, Jane Caplan, and Claudia Koonz, who offered me an intellectual and social community that still sustains me and that constituted a major reason for finishing the project. During four years in New York in the early eighties, I became acquainted with the German Women's History Group. Perhaps more than anyone else, she first convinced me that I had something worth saying about women, families, and social policy in postwar West Germany.
I have benefited enormously from the friendship, encouragement, intelligence, and wit of Temma Kaplan. I welcome the opportunity to acknowledge my debts, though I know that I can never fully repay them. Without much help from many friends and colleagues, I never would have written this book.
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