Tamara Shefer is Senior Professor of Women's and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

Jeff Hearn is Senior Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, based in Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; and Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK

Kopano Ratele is Professor in the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa, South Africa and researcher at the South African Medical Research Council.

Floretta Boonzaier is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.