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CYNTHIA WILLETT is Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of philosophy at Emory University with affiliated positions in women’s, gender, sexuality studies; religion; the psychoanalytic studies program; and African American studies. Her authored books include Interspecies Ethics, Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom, The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris, and Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities. She edited Theorizing Multiculturalism.
JULIE WILLETT is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University, with an affiliated position in women’s and gender studies. She is author of Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop and editor of The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia.
We thank our editors at University of Minnesota Press, Danielle Kasprzak, Mike Stoffel, Ana Bichanich, and Anne Carter for their expert and enthusiastic guidance.
We are grateful to Emory University’s Sarah E. McKee for her guidance with the online-access edition and to Rebekah Spera for her excellent assistance with the index.
Finally, we thank our families for the laughter and love that helped so much along the way: Chloe Willett, Liza Willett, Grant Beecher, Dylan McBee, Joe Boettcher, Vickie Fridge, Gabriella Villalobos, Leslie Chiang, Matt Aharonov, our parents Joe and Ellen Willett, and especially Stefan Boettcher and Randy McBee.
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
TOME aims to expand the reach of long-form humanities and social science scholarship including digital scholarship.
Additionally, the program looks to ensure the sustainability of university press monograph publishing by supporting the highest quality scholarship and promoting a new ecology of scholarly publishing in which authors’ institutions bear the publication costs.
TOME; Emory University; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
2019 by Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett