Acknowledgments

First and foremost we owe thanks to Michael Spooner, who has stuck with us through the thick and thin of this project!

Part of this work was funded by Pauline’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant (SSHRC), 2008–2012, “Transgender Imagination and Enactment in Traditional and Popular Culture in Canada.” Pauline also thanks the University of Winnipeg Research Office for funding support. We have tried to contact rights holders of copyrighted material for permission when applicable. Please contact us via the publisher if you have any questions or concerns. We thank Marvels & Tales for permission to use material from a longer and somewhat different version of Kendra Magnus-Johnston’s chapter, there titled “‘Reeling in’ Grimm Masculinities: Hucksters, Cross-Dressers, and Ninnies” (2013, 27[1]). We thank Ethnologies for permission to use material from a longer and different version of Marcie Fehr and Pauline Greenhill’s chapter, there titled “Our Brommtopp Is of Our Own Design: (De)Constructing Masculinities in Southern Manitoba Mennonite Mumming” (2011 [2013] 32[2]).

Feedback from reviewers for the press led to significant improvements to the collection; we thank these readers for their careful attention to each chapter and engagement with our aims. The responses from students in Pauline’s Folklore and Gender course, winter 2012, were invaluable in helping us to understand how undergraduates would read each chapter. Liyana Fauzi was a fabulous research assistant. We thank John Alley, who first expressed interest in this work, and we thank the contributors for sticking with us through a long and sometimes quite arduous process.

Pauline thanks John Junson, the late Bobbie, and Neko for lightening the load. Diane thanks Peter, Callum, and R.D. for the same.

Thank you to Robin DuBlanc for copyediting. We also thank Linda Gregonis for indexing our work. Finally, Barbara Rieti named the book, coming up with a gloss on our work that would have been well beyond our creative powers!