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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Some people spend years planning out every detail of their dream wedding or figuring out how they’ll raise the perfect child or drawing elaborate plans for ideal the house they’ll build. If you’re a writer, you spend all that energy composing acknowledgments, hoping for that day when your book is finally published. Then when it comes, you’re still not ready. Here it goes, anyway.
Thank you to every single person who in the least bit helped to prop up my dream of being a writer. It’s a very, very long list. It includes teachers and neighbors and family and friends and fellow writers. It starts with my third-grade teacher, Mrs. Hendrickson, who liked my poem about flowers. It includes my late neighbor, John McEvoy, who read one of my stories once and liked it. It stretches to all the folks who read and commented on and told me they liked my blog.
Thank you to the town of Madison, Indiana, the perfect place to be a writer and a sociologist and just generally a person. Thank you Deb at Cocoa Safari for keeping me well-supplied in sour neon gummy worms. To Nick, Rich, Colyn, and all the other folks at Red Roaster who make me cappuccinos and have, on more than one occasion, offered to run people out of “our” spot. Thank you Nathan and Anne for running the best independent bookstore in the world—Village Lights—and for being there in every way possible for local artists.
My LASS friends—Carla, Jeni, Katy, and Sandi—thank you for looking at a very early version of this book and not telling me I was insane.
I’ve been lucky to have so many amazing people who’ve taught me about gender, inside and outside the classroom. My professors at Millsaps College and all the other kick-ass women who first showed me what feminism means. Do not mess with Southern feminists, y’all. Thank you also to my great friends and gender studies colleagues at Hanover College, Sara Patterson and Kate Johnson. Special shout out to Kate for reading an early draft. Thank you to Ellen Airgood for also reading a draft and for being my writing friend.
I could not have written this book without the years of experience in the trenches teaching college students about gender. Thank you to all those young people who helped me figure out what were the most important and interesting bits to share. A special thanks to Ashley Eden and Nicholas Jackson, who read drafts and shared their incredible wisdom with me.
Thank you to the amazing team at Sourcebooks, who didn’t need to be convinced how cool this book could be and who then went about making it happen. Thank you, Grace Menary-Winefield, for all your unending enthusiasm and incredible insight. Thanks to Michelle Lecuyer and Cassie Gutman for their detailed editing and production work. This book looks as beautiful as it does thanks to the brilliant work of Zoe Norvell, Adrienne Krogh, Heather Morris, and Jillian Rahn.
This book would not have happened without the dedication and enthusiasm and just general awesomeness of Brent Taylor and the folks at Triada US Literary. I am truly proud to be represented by Brent, who is a relentless advocate for diversity in publishing and generally using books to make the world a better place for everyone.
I’m grateful to have grown up with a dad who never cared that my sister and I were girls and a mom who had very little interest in most girly things. I also can’t help but believe that being the middle child—stuck between my older sister and younger brother—is part of what made me become a sociologist.
Thank you, Grace, for patiently tolerating the many sociological lectures at the dinner table.
Most of all, I’d like to thank my husband, Jeff. I grew up thinking marriage was a horrible sort of trap, and you taught me that, when you do it right, it actually sets you free. Thank you for being my first editor and for always saying yes.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Robyn Ryle grew up reading choose-your-own-adventure books and has more than fifteen years of experience making the topic of gender interesting and approachable. Her textbook Questioning Gender: A Sociological Exploration is in its third edition and has been translated into Korean. Her writing on gender inequality appears in Investigating Social Problems (SAGE Press, 2014) and the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality. She has published essays on gender and race at Gawker, StorySouth, and Little Fiction/Big Truths, among others. She has a PhD in sociology from Indiana University–Bloomington and is currently professor of sociology and gender studies at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana. In her spare time, she enjoys knitting, gardening, baking, playing music (badly), and generally enjoying small-town life. She lives in a 140-year-old house with her husband, her daughter, and two peculiar cats.
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