Máirtín Mac an Ghaill is Professor of Education at Newman University, UK. He is the author of The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexuality and Schooling. He has published several books and articles with Chris Haywood, including Men and Masculinities and Education and Masculinities: Social, Cultural and Global Transformations. He is currently researching Muslim men and masculinities.
Chris Haywood is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. His main interest is men and masculinities, and he is currently exploring the emergence of new sexual cultures with a particular focus on anonymous sex with strangers. This is part of a broader study on men’s dating practices with a particular focus on mobile dating, online dating and speed dating. Overall, he is interested in pushing the conceptual limits of masculinity models to consider ways of gendering that are not reducible tomasculinity or femininity.