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Acknowledgments

The feminist scholars and teachers represented in this book, as well as those I work with daily, have taught me much about the possibilities of collaboration. Indeed, this book is a product of collaboration, and I’m grateful for the conversation and inspiration from others that have fueled it.

Perhaps above all, my process of developing this project has deepened my gratitude for the women in and outside of academia whose early feminist contributions now benefit all of us. Joy Ritchie is one of these women, and I’m especially thankful for her mentorship—as a scholar, colleague, and department chair. Her guidance and suggestions were a gift to me as I wrote and revised this book. I’m also grateful to Barbara DiBernard, a feminist teacher and scholar, whom I was lucky to call a colleague, and who remains a strong inspiration for my own feminist teaching and writing. Debbie Minter offers me a daily example of what it means to enact feminist leadership in the university, and her colleagueship and friendship deeply enrich my work and life.

I greatly appreciate those who read chapters of this book and offered important questions and ideas: Chris Gallagher, Jennifer Dean, and my Rhetoric of Women Writers students.

My husband, Jason, and daughters, Zoe and Anika, provide me daily doses of love and laughter that balance and feed my work. I thank them.

Finally, I want to express heartfelt appreciation to series editors Stephen Westbrook and Sheryl Fontaine for seeing the value in the project and providing thoughtful, encouraging feedback that enabled me to develop and strengthen it. I thank David Blakesley for his expert guidance of the production process and Terra Williams for her careful copyediting. They’ve helped make it possible for me to share with a new generation the important contributions feminists have made to Composition Studies.