作者簡介 蕾恩．柯挪 Raewyn Connell 現任雪梨大學教育系教授兼澳洲社會科學研究院研究員，獲頒美國社會學學會性與性別研究傑出貢獻獎，並參與制定聯合國多項性別主流化政策。柯挪居住在澳大利亞這個位於全球邊陲的富裕國家，本身為人父母，並有多年是單親。身為變性的女人，面對巨大的衝突矛盾，對傳統性別分野感受也格外強烈。近年來性別相關著作除本書外，另有Masculinities: Second Edition；The Men & the Boys；Which Way is Up? Essays on Sex, Class and Culture；Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics等。

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 and Tristan Bridges – leading scholars of gender and inequality – answer these questions and more. Their updated revision p...(展开全部)

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...(展开全部)

作者 安德鲁·N. 布坎南，美国佛蒙特大学高级讲师，历史学博士。先后毕业于牛津大学、罗格斯大学。已出版《第二次世界大战期间美国地中海大战略》《从世界大战到战后世界：革命、冷战、非殖民化和美国霸权的崛起（1943—1958）》等专著。 译者 张士伟，武汉大学历史学院副教授，博士生导师，中国第二次世界大战史研究会副秘书长、理事。在《世界历史》、《近代史研究》、《史林》、《历史》（History）等中英文期刊发表论文近 20 篇，著有《新秩序的肇启：中国与布雷顿森林体系的诞生（1940—1946）》《美国与世界经济秩序的变革（1916—1955）》，译有《布雷顿森林被遗忘的基石：国际发展与战后秩序的构建》等。

The book covers the research on economic inequality, including the social construction of racial categories, the uneven and stalled gender revolution, and the role of new educational forms and institutions in generating both equality and inequality.

The book covers the research on economic inequality, including the social construction of racial categories, the uneven and stalled gender revolution, and the role of new educational forms and institutions in generating both equality and inequality.

The study of poverty and inequality has been thrust into the foreground as scholars and policymakers respond to the spectacular increase in economic inequality and the slowing or reversal of long-standing downward trends in other forms of inequality. The Grusky Social Stratification reader, which has been the mainstay of the field for more than a decade, has now been revised ...(展开全部)

In an advanced industrial society like the contemporary U. S., where an array of legal, political, institutional, and economic processes work against gender inequality, how does this inequality persist? Are there general social processes through which gender as a principle of social inequality manages to rewrite itself into new forms of social and economic organization? Framed...(展开全部)