Madeleine Arnot is a Fellow of Jesus College and University Lecturer in the School of Education at Cambridge University. Recent publications include co-editing Feminism and Social Justice in Education: international perspectives (1993) and co-authoring Closing of the Gender Gap: postwar education and social change (1999)., Jo-Anne Dillabough is an Assistant Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She has published widely on gender theory and teacher education and is currently writing a book on cultural identities and political communities in Canadian schools.