David BelI teaches cultural studies at Staffordshire University. He is coeditor of Mapping Desire, The Cybercultures Reader, and City Visions, and coauthor of Consuming Geographies and The Sexual Citizen .

Jon Binnie lectures in human geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. His work has appeared in Society and Space, Gender, Place, and Culture, Environment and Planning, and Progress in Human Geography. He is currently writing a book on sexuality and globalization, Globalizing Desires, and is coauthor of The Sexual Citizen.

Ruth Holliday lectures in cultural studies at Staffordshire University. She is coeditor of Organization/Representation, Organizing the Body, and Contested Bodies. She recently completed an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project entitled Public Performances, Private Lives: Identity at Work, Rest, and Play, from which the material in her chapter is drawn.

Robyn Longhurst is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Waikato. She has published essays in numerous edited collections and geographical journals and is author of Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries.

Robin Peace is currently a senior researcher for the Ministry of Social Policy, New Zealand. She was previously a lecturer in feminist geography at the University of Waikato.