Jane L. Parpart is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in International Development Studies, Gender and Women”s Studies and History. She is currently visiting professor at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. She has co-edited a number of volumes, including The Man Question in International Relations (1998), Gender, Conflict and Peacekeeping (2005) and Rethinking Empowerment (2002). She has written extensively on gender and development, gender, development and violence and urban history in Southern Africa. Marysia Zalewski is Director of Gender Studies in the School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen. Her research and teaching interests include theories of feminism and gender, critical International Relations theory and masculinity studies. She is the author of numerous chapters, articles and books including The Man Question in International Relations (1998), Feminism after Postmodernism (2001) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (2004) and Intervening in Northern Ireland: Critically re-thinking representations of the conflict (2007).