Mary Jane Kehily is a lecturer in Childhood Studies at The Open University. Her background is in cultural studies and education and her research interests are in gender and sexuality, narrative and identity, and popular culture. She has published widely on these themes. Recent publications include "Sexuality, Gender and Schooling: Shifting Agendas in Social Learning" (Routledge, 2002); 'Sexing the subject: Teachers, pedagogies and sex education', "Sex Education," 2002, 3(3); and 'Learning to Laugh', A study of Schoolboy humour in the English secondary school' in "What About the Boys? Issues of...