Gender and Power

• Preface. 1. Some Facts in the Case.Part I: Theorising Gender.2. Historical Roots of Contemporary Theory.3. Current Frameworks.Part II: The Structure of Gender Relations.4. The Body and Social Practice.5. Main Structures: Labour, Power and Cathexis.6. Gender Regimes and the Gender Order.7. Historical Dynamic.Part III: Femininity and Masculinity.8. Sexual Character.9. The Mystery in Broad Daylight: Gender Formation and Psychoanalysis.10. Personality as Practice.Part IV Sexual Politics.11. Sexual Ideology.12. Political Practice.13. Present and Future.

`For many years now Bob Connell has been the most original male writer venturing into the difficult terrain of gender relations. His writing is lucid, scholarly and inspiring; indispensable for anyone trying to understand and challenge existing power relations between women and men.' Lynne Segal, co-author of 'Beyond Fragments' and 'Is the Future Feminine?'