Acknowledgements
Thank you Patricia Leavy for not just being a great series editor, but for being an outstanding friend and partner in crime. I just adore you.
Thanks to everyone at Brill | Sense for the support as I worked through this project.
I extend buckets of gratitude to all the authors who have contributed a chapter to the book. Every time I read through your work I was simultaneously struck by how much I learned and how much more I need to learn. I thank you all, deeply, for allowing me to use your work in this text.
As usual, I thank my colleagues and friends. In particular Jen Wiles, Chastity Blakenship, Carrie Buist, Melissa Sierra, Efua Akoma, Jessica Hubbard, Beatrice Yarbrough, Lee Paulsen, Chanda Postell, and Random Messeder. The greatest bunch to have in my life.
I have many mentors whose teachings inspired more of this book than I initially realized. Thank you Marlene Kowalski-Braun, Kathleen Underwood, Judy Whipps, and Angie Moe.
Thanks to my family and my parents, Rick and Deanne Trier. I hit the Husband jackpot with Tim Bieniek.
Finally, this book was proposed in the days following the 2016 election. However, I began pondering a book that linked politics and gender in September 2016 after the death of my friend and colleague, Dr. Ilyse Kusnetz. We miss you, Ilyse. Thank you for helping me get tenure and for teaching me about the dangers of Florida spiders.