Kathy Davis is Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of Reshaping the Female Body, Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences, The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders and Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World.

Janice Irvine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. She is the author of Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism; Talk About Sex: The Battles Over Sex Education in the United States, and Disorders of Desire: Sex and Gender in Modern American Sexology.