Confronting Equality

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 gender equality struggles, 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, this 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, and 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.

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ISBN 0745653510   Pages 200 ISBN13 9780745653518 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 270 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Oxford Imprint Polity Press   Height (mm) 215 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 141 Publication date 16 Sep 2011   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY 305   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Introduction 1 Change among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities and Gender Equality 2 Steering toward Equality? How Gender Regimes Change inside the State 3 The Neoliberal Parent: Mothers and Fathers in Market Society 4 Working-Class Families and the New Secondary Education 5 Good Teachers on Dangerous Ground 6 Not the Pyramids: Intellectual Workers Today 7 Sociology has a World History 8 Paulin Hountondji's Postcolonial Sociology of Knowledge 9 Antonio Negri's Theory of Empire 10 Bread and Waratahs: A Letter to the Next Left Acknowledgments References

"You may not agree with Connell's profound critique of neoliberalism, which according to her is responsible for the inequalities of our time, but this book will at the very least provoke you to rethink and reanalyze the current system. This volume is a valiant and much needed call for action." The Global Journal "Confronting Equality showcases sociology at work, making sense of complex and shifting global dynamics of class, gender, and intellectual labor. And since this is the work of Raewyn Connell, it is also social science at its best: characterized by richly theorized empirical research, and carving out a place for a radically generative and engaged world sociology." Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California "Confronting Equality illuminates the contemporary historical period with a blend of incisive theorizing and careful empirical work. Connell explores the shaping force of neoliberalism, the dynamics of global inequality, and processes of social change through a wide-range of topics: masculinities, struggles for gender equality, class inequality in schooling and in family life, intellectual work in the global metropole and periphery. A timely and thought-provoking book." Barrie Thorne, University of California, Berkeley

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