Confronting equality : gender, knowledge and global change /

"What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across family change, class and education, intell...

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Main Author: Connell, Raewyn, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2011.
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Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents:
  • Change among the gatekeepers : men, masculinities and gender equality
  • Steering towards equality? How gender regimes change inside the state
  • The neoliberal parent : mothers and fathers in market society
  • Working-class families and the new secondary education
  • Good teachers on dangerous ground
  • Not the pyramids : intellectual workers today
  • Sociology has a world history
  • Paulin Hountondji's postcolonial sociology of knowledge
  • Antonio Negri's theory of empire
  • Bread and Waratahs : a letter to the next left.