Gender : in world perspective
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Gender : in world perspective
(Short introductions)
Polity Press, 2021
4th ed
- : [hardback]
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-167) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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
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