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Gender: In World Perspective by Raewyn Connell (University Professor, University of Sydney)

How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And how is gender entwined in global politics and debates over trans issues?

Raewyn Connell - one of the world's leading scholars in the field - answers these questions and more. Her book provides a sophisticated yet accessible 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 framework for gender analysis with a strong and distinctive global awareness. Highlighting the multidimensional character of gender relations, Connell shows how to link personal life with large-scale organizational structures, and how gender politics changes its form in changing situations.

The fourth edition of this influential book brings the statistical picture of gender inequalities up to date, and offers new close-focus case studies of gender research. Like previous editions, it examines gender politics and global power relations, but with added discussion around contemporary issues of intersectionality, populism, gender-based violence, trans struggles and environmental change. It also speaks at the intimate level, about embodied gender and personal relationships.

Gender moves from personal experience to global problems, offering a unique perspective on gender issues today.

Gender Reviews

I fully recommend this new edition of Gender, which will allow new generations to follow critical theories about one of the fundamental dimensions of personal and collective life, from the most intimate to the search for a more egalitarian social order.
Teresa Valdes, Gender Equality Observatory, Chile

Concise, comprehensive and international, Gender: In World Perspective is an ideal text for today's students. It covers gender theory, concepts and research from the basics to queering. Even gender specialists can learn from it.
Judith Lorber, Professor Emerita, City University of New York

About Raewyn Connell (University Professor, University of Sydney)

Raewyn Connell is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney. She is an internationally renowned researcher in the field of Sex and Gender; her previous publications include Masculinities, Gender and Power, Making the Difference, and Southern Theory.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The question of gender
Chapter 2: Gender research: five examples
Chapter 3: Bodies and differences
Chapter 4: Theory and theorists: a short global history
Chapter 5: The social framework: gender relations
Chapter 6: Personal life
Chapter 7: Economy, local and global
Chapter 8: Politics, visible and invisible

Afterword
References
Index

Additional information

GOR012424213
9781509539000
150953900X
Gender: In World Perspective by Raewyn Connell (University Professor, University of Sydney)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2020-12-11
208
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