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Gender / R. W. Connell.

By: Series: Short introductionsPublication details: Cambridge, UK : Polity ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.Description: viii, 173 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0745627161(pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.3072 22
Contents:
1. The Question of Gender -- 2. Schools, Mines, Sex and War -- 3. Differences and Bodies -- 4. Gender Relations -- 5. Gender in Personal Life -- 6. Gender on the Large Scale -- 7. Gender and the Intellectuals -- 8. Gender Politics.
Review: "How can we understand the gender patterns of modern society? Are gender identities unstable? How do masculinities and femininities develop? Do gender patterns change under globalization? In this book R. W. Connell, one of the world's leading scholars in the field, answers these questions, and more. He provides a readable introduction to modern gender studies, gender theories, and gender politics. He presents contemporary classics of research, traces the history of Western intellectuals' ideas, and discusses current findings on gender differences, inequalities and patterns in the state and corporations. However, the book is more than an introduction. It provides a powerful contemporary framework for gender studies, based on a synthesis of structural and post-structural analysis. Connell demonstrates the multidimensional and dynamic character of gender relations. He shows how to link individual life with large-scale social patterns, and how to locate gendered bodies in the historical process that constantly transforms gender relations. He also shows, in a deeply personal way, how gender politics arises in personal life and why we need to address injustice." -- BOOK JACKET. {
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.3072 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 64166

Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-165) and index.

1. The Question of Gender -- 2. Schools, Mines, Sex and War -- 3. Differences and Bodies -- 4. Gender Relations -- 5. Gender in Personal Life -- 6. Gender on the Large Scale -- 7. Gender and the Intellectuals -- 8. Gender Politics.

"How can we understand the gender patterns of modern society? Are gender identities unstable? How do masculinities and femininities develop? Do gender patterns change under globalization? In this book R. W. Connell, one of the world's leading scholars in the field, answers these questions, and more. He provides a readable introduction to modern gender studies, gender theories, and gender politics. He presents contemporary classics of research, traces the history of Western intellectuals' ideas, and discusses current findings on gender differences, inequalities and patterns in the state and corporations. However, the book is more than an introduction. It provides a powerful contemporary framework for gender studies, based on a synthesis of structural and post-structural analysis. Connell demonstrates the multidimensional and dynamic character of gender relations. He shows how to link individual life with large-scale social patterns, and how to locate gendered bodies in the historical process that constantly transforms gender relations. He also shows, in a deeply personal way, how gender politics arises in personal life and why we need to address injustice." -- BOOK JACKET. {

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