Jane M. Ussher is Professor of Women's Health Psychology at the Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Australia. A critical health psychologist with four decades of experience, her research centres on sexual and reproductive health and embodied subjectivity. She is the author of more than 350 papers and chapters and 15 books, editor of the journal Women's Reproductive Health, and editor of the Routledge Women and Psychology book series.

Christine D. Baker, (d.2017) M.Phil, Institute of Psychiatry London, was a clinical psychologist in London later in Jersey, Channel Islands. Her interests were adult mental health and particularly the sexual problems of adults focussing on women who had been sexually abused as children. Christine was the sole author of Female Survivors of Sexual Abuse (2002) based on her research over a number of years. She was a member of the Clinical Division of the British Psychological Society and the British Association of Behavioural Psychotherapies.