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I want to thank Jonathan Skerrett, Polity editor, for suggesting this book. I’d also like to thank Susan Farrell, Kathleen Gerson, and Patricia Yancey Martin for their reviews at various stages and the anonymous reviewers of the first draft for their astute comments. Much of the book was written during the various levels of the COVID-19 lockdowns. That should have given me the gift of time, but anxiety over the pandemic often ate away at my ability to concentrate and write. I thank friends and East End Temple Sisterhood members for their psychological support.

The inspiration for the book came from J. Lorber (2018), “Paradoxes of Gender Redux: Multiple Genders and the Persistence of the Binary,” in J. W. Messerschmidt, P. Y. Martin, M. A. Messner, and R. Connell (eds), Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research, New York: New York University Press.

Some material in the book is adapted from J. Lorber (2005), Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change, New York: W. W. Norton, and these articles and reviews: “Using Gender to Undo Gender: A Feminist Degendering Movement,” Feminist Theory 1 (2000): 101–18; “Constructing Gender: The Dancer and the Dance,” in J. A. Holstein and J. F. Gubrium (eds), Handbook of Constructionist Research, New York: Guilford Publications, (2008); “Review Essay: Gendered and Sexed Brains,”’ Contemporary Sociology 40 (2011): 405–9; “Review Essay: Why Do Bathrooms Matter?,” Contemporary Sociology 41 (2012): 598–602.

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March 31, 2021