David Kirk is Professor and Head of the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and formerly held the Alexander Chair in Physical Education and Sport at the University of Bedfordshire. He is author of studies of two curriculum histories in physical education, Defining Physical Education (Routledge, 1992) and Schooling Bodies (Cassell, 1998). His most recent books are Physical Education Futures (Routledge, 2010) and Girls, Gender and Physical Education: An Activist Approach (with Kimberly L. Oliver, Routledge, 2015). Patricia Vertinsky is Professor of Kinesiology and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is author of The Eternally Wounded Woman: Doctors, Women and Exercise in the Late 19th Century ( University of Illinois Press, 1990); Sites of Sport: Space, Place and Experience (with John Bale, Routledge, 2004); Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument and Modernism (with Sherry McKay, Routledge, 2004), and Physical Culture, Power
