Copyright C R.W.Connell 1987 First published 1987 by Polity Press in association with Basil Blackwell. Editorial Office: Polity Press,Dales Brewery,Gwydir Street, Cambridge CBI 2LJ,UK Contents Basil Blackwell Ltd 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 IJF,UK All rights reserved.Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review,no part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted, in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recording or otherwise,without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America,this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not,by way of trade or otherwise,be ix lent,resold,hired out,or otherwise circulated without the Preface publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other 1 Introduction:Some Facts in the Case than that in which it is published and without a similar condition A teenager and her family 1 including this condition being imposed on the subsequent The public world:wages,education,jobs 6 purchaser. Violence,prejudice,the state 11 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Connell,R.W Gender and power:socicty,the person and sexual politics. Part I:Theorizing Gender 1.Sex role 1.Title 2 Historical Roots of Contemporary Theory 23 305.3 BF692.2 Secular morality 3 ISBN0-7456-0467-6 Science and radicalism 26 ISBN0-7456-0468-4Pbk Sex roles and syntheses 2 Typeset in 11 on 12 pt Baskerville Feminism and gay liberation 3 by Photo-graphics,Honiton,Devon Reaction and paradox 37 Printed in Great Britain by 3 Current Frameworks 41 Page Bros (Norwich)Ltd Extrinsic theories:from'class first'through 'social reproduction'to 'dual systems' 41 Sex role theory 47 Categorical theory 54 Towards a practice-based theory 61 4 The Body and Social Practice 66 The knot of natural difference 66 Transcendence and negation 8 Practical transformations of the body 83