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Barry D. Adam is University Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor, Ontario, and author of The Survival of Domination (1978) and The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement (1995), and co-author of Experiencing HIV (1996) and The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics (1999). He also has published articles on new social movement theory, on Nicaragua, on gay and lesbian issues, and on social aspects of AIDS. Website: http://www.uwindsor.ca/adam . Chris Barker is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His writing has been in the fields of television and globalization, cultural identities, cultural theory and, more recently, culture, masculinity, and emotion. Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has been a co-editor-in-chief of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry since 2000. Dr. Becker is the director of the Adult Eating and Weight Disorders Program at Massachusetts General Hospital; her current research is on the impact of social transition on disordered eating and on variations by social class and ethnicity. Dr. Becker teaches psychiatric residents culture and mental health, addressing issues of cultural competence. Claudia Bell is a sociologist at the University ... log in or subscribe to read full text