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Confronting Equality: Gender, knowledge and global change
From Australia's best-known sociologist comes a passionate argument for the value social analysis brings to our understanding of the world, and a fresh and bold agenda for social justice. What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge?
In "Confronting Equality" Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across family change, class and education, intellectual workers, and the global dimension of social science, to contemporary theorists of knowledge and global power, and the political dilemmas of today's left. Written with clarity and passion, the book proposes a bold agenda for social science, and shows it in action.
Raewyn Connell is known internationally for her powerfully argued and field-defining books "Masculinities," "Gender and Power," "Making the Difference," and "Southern Theory." This new volume gathers together a broad spectrum of her recent work which distinctively combines close-focus field research and large-scale theory. It brings this to bear on those questions of social justice and struggles for change that have long been at the heart of her writing, and will have wide-ranging implications for the social sciences and social activism in the twenty-first century.
'[This is] social science at its best: characterised by richly theorised empirical research, and carving out a place for a radically generative and engaged world sociology.' - "Professor Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California"
In "Confronting Equality" Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across family change, class and education, intellectual workers, and the global dimension of social science, to contemporary theorists of knowledge and global power, and the political dilemmas of today's left. Written with clarity and passion, the book proposes a bold agenda for social science, and shows it in action.
Raewyn Connell is known internationally for her powerfully argued and field-defining books "Masculinities," "Gender and Power," "Making the Difference," and "Southern Theory." This new volume gathers together a broad spectrum of her recent work which distinctively combines close-focus field research and large-scale theory. It brings this to bear on those questions of social justice and struggles for change that have long been at the heart of her writing, and will have wide-ranging implications for the social sciences and social activism in the twenty-first century.
'[This is] social science at its best: characterised by richly theorised empirical research, and carving out a place for a radically generative and engaged world sociology.' - "Professor Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California"
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197 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2011
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Raewyn W. Connell
37 books92 followersRaewyn Connell (also known as R.W. Connell and Robert W. Connell) is an Australian sociologist. She gained prominence as an intellectual of the Australian New Left. She is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney and known for the concept of hegemonic masculinity and southern theory.
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May 3, 2025
Each chapter was beautifully written but that chapter on Negri was the absolute best. I have never read anything that explained Negri in such simpler terms. I might assign it to undergrads.
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