ABSTRACT
I’m a bit surprised and honored that someone would think of me in those terms. Certainly, when I began doing work on women and crime, I was well aware that there were risks doing the sort of work I was drawn to, particularly if one were looking for an academic job. Some of my closest friends were being denied tenure for doing what I considered to be outstanding work on gender. So, actually I went to the community colleges so that I could continue to study women and crime, even though it was a trifl e hard, given the workload.
