ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My work on this book began with a series of articles published in Catholic World Report on the Cairo and Beijing conferences and a booklet entitled "Gender: The Deconstruction of Women," which was prepared for the delegates to the Beijing conference. I wish to thank Phil Lawler, editor of Catholic World Report, for permission to include the material from Catholic World Report, for his contributions to those articles, and for his support.

I also wish to thank all the members of the Coalition for Women and the Family who helped me with this project, especially Dan Zeidler and Christine and Alberto Vollmer. And, I wish to pay my respects to the courageous delegates who fought for women and the family.

I especially want to thank Genevieve Kineke and Abigail Tardiff, who helped me with the editing and gave me moral support, and all those who prayed for me and for this book.