Ruth Barcan teaches in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is one of the editors of Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning and a co-editor of Imaging Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry. She is the author of numerous essays on the body, nudity and nudism, popular culture and pedagogy. This volume draws on research carried out while she was a Senior Lecturer in Humantities at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.