Did You Hear About The Girl Who . . . ?: Contemporary Legends, Folklore, and Human Sexuality

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We give special thanks to those people who read and commented on various drafts of the manuscript, giving us essential feedback and encouragement : Julie D’Acci, Charles C. Doyle, Adriane Fugh-Berman, Joseph P. Goodwin, Carl Lindahl, and Jan Savage. Nancy Worcester deserves extra thanks for her emotional and intellectual support throughout this project and for her insightful reading of multiple drafts. Many people generously contributed legends, beliefs, jokes, and other folklore, which we recognize do not necessarily reflect their own attitudes or beliefs. It would be impossible to name them all but we would particularly like to thank the following people for their contributions : students at the University of Georgia, Sarah Agar, Alan Hendrick , Roger L. Janelli, Alison Moran, Edgar Slotkin, Fran Teague, and Johannah Whatley. We also wish to thank friends and colleagues in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia, who contributed informally to this project. We are both grateful for the support, both direct and indirect, from our departments: University of Georgia, Department of English; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Women’s Studies Program, and the School of Education Dean’s Office. Some of our early work that led to this book was published in an article entitled “Folklore, Legends, and Sexuality Education” in Journal of Sex Education and Therapy (1995, volume 21 [1], pp. 46–61). We wish to thank the journal editors for being open to publishing interdisciplinary work and for allowing us to retain the rights to use our material in our own work. xi xii ...