Speculum of the other Woman [antikvár]

Acknowledgments I thank Ellen Peel and Margaret Homans for their encouragement and support in the early stages of this translation project, and for their thoughtful suggestions on two sections of the translation. Suzanne Rel-yea also read parts of the manuscript, and 1 thank her in particular for her expert advice on the Descartes section. Christopher Lenney was an invaluable research assistant, locating and referencing the many cited passages for me. He also gave detailed suggestions on parts of the translation, for which 1 am very grateful. James Hulbert of the University of Rochester gave the manuscript a most careful, sympathetic, and informed reading. 1 owe him a debt of gratitude for his comments and specifically for his identification of several passages from Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel which were quoted without reference in the French text. Working with the editors at Cornell University Press, first Barbara Burnham and later Bernhard Kendler and Kay Scheuer, has been a pleasure and a learning experience for me. This translation would not have been done without a fellowship from the Translations Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency. My dealings with officials at the Endowment were uniformly cordial and helpful, and Susan A. Mango in particular gave me excellent counsel at a crucial stage in my proposal. Finally, let me thank my husband, Mike, for his encouragement, support, and practical assistance during this long project. G. C. G. Lexington, Massachusetts