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This book began as a second edition of our Theorizing Gender (2002) and then morphed into a new work that revisits many of the same concerns, but in a changed political and social, as well as theoretical, context. The original Theorizing Gender was written in collaboration with Annette Fitzsimons and Ros Minsky. Both are sadly no longer with us, but we remain informed by their knowledge and insights. Regretfully also gone is the Hull Centre for Gender Studies, which for thirty-five years sustained and supported the research of many scholars and activists, including our own. We pay tribute to the commitment and expertise of those who made Hull an important centre of excellence for gendered research, maintained close links with activist groups in the local community, and established and perpetuated a set of international networks. Collectively they/we promoted a commitment to internationalism and localism as key to any feminist agenda, interweaving feminist and LGBTQI+ concerns internationally with those of migration and borders. The legacy of the centre burns bright, however, in the transfer of the Erasmus Mundus GEMMA Masters of Excellence to the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York and the ongoing research and teaching of the centre’s alumni across the world, including within the inspiring Global Grace Project. We would also like to thank each other for many years of fruitful and enjoyable collaboration in both teaching and research.