Gender
ISBN: 9780745645681 | 0745645682
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 4/21/2009
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How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And what is the impact of globalization on gender issues?Raewyn Connell, one of the world's leading scholars in the field, answers these questions and more. In this book she provides a readable introduction to modern gender studies, covering empirical research from all parts of the world in addition to theory and politics. As well as introducing the field, Gender provides a powerful contemporary ... MORE
Chapter 1. The question of gender.Chapter 2. Gender research: five examples.Chapter 3. Gender theorists and gender theory.Chapter 4. Sex differences and gendered bodies.Chapter 5. Gender relations.Chapter 6. Gender in personal life.Chapter 7. Gender on the large scale.Chapter 8. Gender politics
Raewyn Connell is University Professor at the University of Sydney.
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