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In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health services are noticing the relevance of men’s gender to problems as diverse as road accidents, diet and sexually transmitted disease. Teachers are increasingly preoccupied with the poor educational performance of boys, and criminologists have begun to explore why men and boys continue to dominate the crime statistics. In this timely new volume, one of the world’s leading authorities on masculinity helps us to understand these developments, and make sense of the multiplying issues about men and boys. Five years on from the publication of the seminal study Masculinities, this book reflects on the growing social scientific research in this area. Connell assesses its strengths and weaknesses and explores its implications for contemporary problems from boys’ education and men’s health to international peacemaking. Written in a lively and accessible way, this book will be essential reading for all students of sociology, politics and gender studies, as well as anyone interested in the future of gender relations.

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·      A punchy and accessible book taking a look at the state of higher education globally ·      Argues that a crisis of sustainability is developing in the sector, e.g. dissatisfaction of students and staff, multiple sector strikes across continents, student protests against their institutions, etc. ·      Written by an internationally respected author, social critic and academic, currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney, who was a founding member of the Free University movement in the 1960s ·      Gives myriad examples of the rich, worldwide history of alternative, experimental and reform universities and educational reformers from across the globe ·      Will be of particular interest to university staff, faculty, unions, students, research and policy organisations focussing on knowledge, science and education, social movements focussed on decolonising education, etc. ·      Goes beyond the university as ‘corporation vs. public good’ argument which is the focus of current literature (Collini, Willetts, etc.) to explicitly consider the legacy of broader forces of privilege and oppression, such as colonialism, imperialism, race, class and gender politics on the university

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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. Visit www.raewynconnell.net

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