ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am indebted to so many people without whom this book would either not exist at all or would be much worse. Thank you to my agent, Charlotte Sheedy, and to Ally Sheedy for believing in the book and me. Thank you to my editors, Sara Bershtel, Riva Hocherman, and especially Grigory Tovbis, and to the rest of the team at Metropolitan/Henry Holt. I am grateful for your thoughtfulness, precision, and care for this book during a tremendously trying time.

Thank you to everyone who spoke to me about their experiences regarding sexual harassment and allegations thereof. I am grateful for your trust. Thank you to the many attorneys, professors, and advocates who shared their insights. Thank you to the journalists, researchers, and theorists on whose work I drew.

Thank you to Grace Watkins, Mollie Berkowitz, Rita Gilles, Yao Lin, Kathryn Pogin, Pauline Syrnik, and the Yale Reproductive Justice Clinic for their research assistance. Thank you to Kayla Patrick for consulting on quantitative questions. Thanks also to Carrie Frye and Leah Finnegan for invaluable writerly guidance. And thank you to Maya Dusenbery for her expert fact-checking.

Thank you to my husband, Alec Schierenbeck, for encouraging me to take on this project, listening to me talk about it incessantly for years, helping me work through tough substantive and structural decisions, and spending the weeks before our wedding line editing my entire first draft. I am so grateful for our partnership in life and in thought.

Writing this book has been the most powerful, moving reminder of the generosity and brilliance of my community. Thank you to Katie Baker, Suzanna Bobadilla, Dana Bolger, David Chen, Elizabeth Deutsch, Jennifer Doyle, Max Ehrenfreund, Nia Evans, Seth Extein, Charlie Gerstein, Lucy Gubernick, John He, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, Sarah Nesbitt, Kate Orazem, Kayla Patrick, Noah Rosenblum, Emma Roth, my sister Anna Schierenbeck, and my mother, Valerie Cooke, for reading and editing chapters—and even full drafts—of this work.

Thank you to Mike Wishnie, who supervised the law school paper that eventually became this book. Thank you to the many other professors whose teaching in college and law school also deeply influenced my thinking on this topic, including Michelle Anderson, Crystal Feimster, Julie Goldscheid, Ali Miller, Judith Resnik, and Reva Siegal.

Thank you to the Know Your IX organizers and other feminists with whom I grew up intellectually and politically. I am especially grateful to Dana, the most thoughtful partner a girl could have for such a wild, formative adventure. Thank you to Public Justice, and particularly Adele Kimmel, for righteous work and for encouraging me to use my voice in and out of the job.

Thank you to the feminist advocates, lawyers, writers, and scholars who made our lives possible and laid the groundwork, both practical and theoretical, for today’s movements.

Thank you to everyone doing the hard work in good faith.