Acknowledgements

I owe thanks to many people who have helped in the preparation and completion of this book. Firstly, I would like to thank Christina Irving at Emerald Books for the interest she showed in my paper on women’s activism at the British Sociological Association (BSA) conference and for the enthusiasm she has shown throughout. It was a pleasure to work with a number of colleagues at Emerald Books and I would like to express my gratitude to the series editors of Advances in Gender Research, Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal for their support and impeccable editing skills. I thank Emma Stevenson for her patience and professionalism throughout and for help in bringing the project to completion. I also thank the contributors of the chapters, without which this book would not exist and for their co-operation as I edited their work through to completion. The authors have shown inspiration and passion in their research on women’s status globally and their efforts will hopefully find expression in global moves towards improving women’s status. For the institutional support that I needed to complete the manuscript, I thank Professor Craig Barker and Cait Beaumont for last-minute research leave. Thanks to my other colleagues at London South Bank University, especially Elaine Bauer, Jaya Gajparia, Yvonne Robinson, Matthew Bond, Donatella Maraschin, Suzanne Scafe, Beverley Goring, Veronica Leacock and Ben Acquaah for their support in various aspects of university life. I am grateful to Professor Tracey Reynolds who invited me to present a paper at a symposium on higher education at Greenwich University, which helped me to fine tune my chapter on Bangladeshi women’s experiences of university. Tam Sanger did a great job proofreading the manuscript. Thanks must also go to my family. Special thanks as always to Adrian Budd for his love, humour, musical interludes and support throughout.