BOB LINGARD is Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He has also been Professor at The University of Edinburgh and the University of Sheffield, UK. He has published extensively and his books include Gender and Changing Educational Management, Men Engaging Feminisms: Profeminism, Backlashes and Schooling and Leading Learning: Making Hope Practical in Schools. He is editor of the journal Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education and is on the editorial board of five other international journals in education. WAYNE MARTINO is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, The University of Western Ontario, Canada. His publications include Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws, So What's a Boy? Addressing Issues of Masculinity and Schooling and Being Normal is the only way to be: Adoelscent Perspectives on Gender and School. MARTIN MILLS is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia. His publications include Challenging Violence in Schools: An Issue of Masculinity, Leading Learning: Making Hope Practical in Schools and Productive Pedagogies, Assessment and Performance.