This book explores the experience and identity of §Australian male primary (elementary) school teachers §and the way that society perceives, treats and §positions them. It documents their experience of §crossing-over into a career commonly regarded §as women s work , and charts the advantages and §disadvantages they face as a result of their §maleness. The book concludes that their §experience is likely to be complex, contradictory §and problematic, and that their choice to cross-over §into women s work such as primary teaching often §yields a unique and complex mixture of experiences §that are poorly understood by both themselves and §others. This book articulates the issues at stake §for male primary teachers and provides a language §and framework that enables the relevant issues to be §addressed within education policy, teaching practice §and teacher education. It also calls for new and §more sophisticated societal debates and discourses §about male primary teachers that will adequately §accommodate the complexity, joys and sometimes §precarious nature of their experience.