Social justice, R.W. Connell contends, is an inextricable part of any educational system, and democratic societies should give priority to the educational needs of the disadvantaged. In this remarkabl
"This book breaks new ground and expands the discourse on masculinities. Connell is an energetic scholar whose eclectic internationalist, sociological, historical, and even psychoanalytic perspectives
This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's groundbreaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. In its first edition, Masculinities provide
This is a study of the Australian ruling class - the main companies, the leading political groups and the links and conflicts among them. The author also analyses class inequalities in education, the development of children's ideas about class, the role of the mass media and the way class relations are cemented culturally and psychologically. He introduces his book with a brief discussion of the literature on class theory, and a critical evaluation of Australian writing on class. Professor Connell's major aims are to describe and analyse Australia in the 1970s, to show how class theory is a useful tool in understanding the situation and to develop the theory by working through some practical cases. Apart from its obvious importance for Australian readers, this book should be of interest in other countries, both for comparison and for its original ideas on a number of important issues, such as conflict in the ruling class, and class consciousness in young people.
Sexual politicsfrom economic equality to anti-gay violenceis a vast area of debate. This exceptional book seeks to integrate gender and sexuality into the mainstream of social and political theory wit
This book provides a unique conceptualization of: 1) embodiment as a lived aspect of gender, 2) how masculine practices may be constructed by both boys and girls, 3) how such embodied social actions a
我們如何理解現代社會中的性別範型？性別認同是固定的嗎？男性特質與女性特質是如何發展的？性別範型會隨著全球化的趨勢而改變嗎？性別研究巨擘Connell，在本書中不但替我們解答了這些問題，更為現代性別研究、性別理論和性別政治提供了簡明易懂的導讀；同時還介紹當代研究的經典作品，並追溯西方知識份子於性別研究領域中的思想發展史，深入探討有關國家與企業中性別差異、性別不平等和性別範型的最新研究成果。 Con
The Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities is an interdisciplinary and international culmination of the growth of men's studies that also offers insight about future directions for the field. T
