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xiii Preface Sexual harassment seems to be in the news all the time. In 2018, there were more than seventy-five hundred claims filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), but those claims make up only a fraction of sexual harassment inci- dents that occur each year. The day after actress Alyssa Milano called for anyone who had experienced sexual harassment or assault to tweet #MeToo, there were an estimated 609,000 posts with that hashtag (Griffin et al. 2018). Since 2017, there is certainly a greater public awareness of the problem, but it has not gone away. Like many, if not most women, I have been sexually harassed—catcalls on the street, an assistant manager who leered and sang “Afternoon Delight” to me when I worked at a fast-food restaurant one summer while I was in college, the drunken brother of a friend who reached over and untied the strap of my tank top, and, more seriously, the professor who attempted to seduce me one summer afternoon. I went to his house for a tutorial session prior to taking my PhD compre- hensive exams. I had been to his house before, so it did not seem unusual to me to meet there, as school was not in session. We talked and then he brought out lunch and wine. He was subtle, offering me more wine, and then asking me to sit next to him on the sofa several times, which I did not do. I don’t think he would have raped me, but I was very much aware that I was alone in the house with him, and his wife was out of the country. I believe he could easily have overpowered me. He was tall, broad, and heavy—he looked massive to me. I am a