Girl Meets Boy

Acknowledgements and Thanks

I’ve adapted the story of Burning Lily from the account of the early life of Lilian Lenton in Rebel Girls by Jill Liddington (Virago, 2006).

The myth of Iphis originates in Book 9 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. ‘Carry your gifts to the temples, happy pair, and rejoice, confident and unafraid!’ It is one of the cheeriest metamorphoses in the whole work, one of the most happily resolved of its stories about the desire for and the ramifications of change.

The statistics in chapter four were collated by Womankind (www.womankind.org.uk), a UK charity whose raison d’être is to provide voice, aid and rights to disempowered women worldwide.

I’ve borrowed the rhetorical structure of one of Keith’s talks from a paper given in 2001 by the sociologist

J-P Joseph about the global water corporation Vivendi Universal, quoted in Blue Gold by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke (Earthscan, 2002). The writings of Vandana Shiva are another good place to help comprehend what’s happening right now, worldwide, when it comes to the politics of water, as is H20: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999), which lets us know, among many other marvellous things, that ‘water is bent’.

Thank you, Xandra. Thank you, Jeanette.

Thank you, Rachel, Bridget and Kasia.

Thank you, Robyn and Hiraani at This ASFC.

Thank you, Andrew, and everyone at Wylie’s, especially

Tracy. Thank you, Anya.

Thank you, Lucy.

Thank you, Sarah.