xvi Preface Preface xvii the Soviet Communist Party to the recent history of Sydney author is cited is explained in the bibliographical notes at the end theatre. of each chapter,which are compiled section by section.Here also Many people have given feedback to working papers and drafts. are references which would have been awkward to include in the I have been helped particularly by comments from Glynn Huilgol, main text and discussions of some technicalities which would have Elizabeth Reid and Hester Eisenstein.Gary Dowsett,Lynne Segal, interrupted the flow of argument.These notes refer,as in the Rosemary Pringle,John Iremonger and Venetia Nelson read and conventional Harvard system,to the bibliography;with the criticized the whole manuscript.The bulk of the typing in the last exception of the notes to chapter 1,which give directly the sources few years has been done by Helen Easson,as it was in earlier of statistical data used in that chapter alone. stages by Heather Williams;the project would not have moved without their skill and critical interest.And I am deeply grateful for the tolerance and friendship of Robyn Dasey,in whose house NOTES the whole first draft was written. For an example of the trouble a man can get into when writing about Part of the work for this book was funded by the Australian feminism,see the criticisms of David Bouchier's The Feminist Challenge Research Grants Committee with a grant for a study called Theory by Janet Bujra and others (1984).For the gender dimension of our of Class and Patriarchy'.Grants for purely theoretical work are educational research see Kessler,Ashenden,Connell and Dowsett sufficiently rare that this should perhaps be celebrated.Part has (1982,1985). been funded by Macquarie University Research Grants and by two periods of study leave from Macquarie University. My greatest debt by far is to Pam Benton,who has been involved with the project through its whole development and at all its levels-intellectual,practical and emotional.I would like to dedicate the product to our daughter Kylie,in the hope that we can get enough right in this generation to make the world she grows up in a more equal,safe and rational place:less patriarchal and more human. The plan of the book is straightforward:an introductory sketch of the facts of gender inequalities;three chapters on theories of gender;three chapters on gender as social structure;three chapters on gender as personality;and three chapters on politics and ideology.This plan,however,risks exaggerating the separateness of the parts.A central theoretical idea is that the social and the personal depend on each other and in an earlier draft of the book the chapters on personality came before the chapters on social structure.I would emphasize that Parts II and III should each be read in the light of the other. Referencing is a problem with a complex and wide-ranging text, so I have invented my own (condensed)version of the Harvard system.The names of authors are mentioned in the text without dates and the details can be found in the alphabetical bibliography at the back.Any ambiguity about which work of a particular