I suppose this is giving away the Acknowledgements page of the book, but I don’t think anyone’s planning on buying it for that, are they?
So, more thank yous to:
- Marlena, who read and commented and provided all sorts of references;
- Angus/Andrea, who provided me with useful reading and insights into linguistics issues;
- Megan, who read quite a few chapters early on for me;
- Emilia, who always managed to get me an article about three minutes after I emailed her that I needed it;
- Rhea and her wife who offered me my “writer’s cabin” when I thought I’d need it (I didn’t, after all, but it was a lovely offer);
- Michelle, who told me good stories, one of which turned out to be a very useful introduction for a specific issue I wanted to talk about;
- and Mary and Lucy, who drafted up a very cool idea for the cover that I loved (though sadly it’s not going to be used).
I think that’s everyone, for now, though of course thank you too to all of you who have emailed me or posted on the boards and inspired me to think in new ways about gender and gender roles.
It really is a relief to be done, though right behind the relief is this terrific scary feeling that I don’t get to just put it in a drawer somewhere now that I’m done: kind of the writer equivalent of stage fright, I guess. But of course it will be months till all y’all actually get to read it, so I bet stop worrying about what people are going to think of it till at least February.