Confronting Equality: Gender, Knowledge and Global Change

Description

From Australia's best-known sociologist comes a passionate argument for the value social analysis brings to our understanding of the world, and a fresh and bold agenda for social justice. Cover......Page 1 Part Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 1 Change among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities and Gender Equality......Page 14 2 Steering towards Equality? How Gender Regimes Change inside the State......Page 32 3 The Neoliberal Parent: Mothers and Fathers in Market Society......Page 48 4 Working-Class Families and the New Secondary Education......Page 65 5 Good Teachers on Dangerous Ground......Page 80 6 Not the Pyramids: Intellectual Workers Today......Page 96 7 Sociology has a World History......Page 110 8 Paulin Hountondji’s Postcolonial Sociology of Knowledge......Page 126 9 Antonio Negri’s Theory of Empire......Page 143 10 Bread and Waratahs: A Letter to the Next Left......Page 161 Acknowledgements......Page 174 References......Page 177 Index......Page 194