Confronting Equality: Gender, Knowledge and Global Change

Introduction page 1

1 Change among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities and Gender Equality 7

2 Steering towards Equality? How Gender Regimes Change inside the State 25

3 The Neoliberal Parent: Mothers and Fathers in Market Society 41

4 Working-Class Families and the New Secondary Education 58

5 Good Teachers on Dangerous Ground 73

6 Not the Pyramids: Intellectual Workers Today 89

7 Sociology has a World History 103

8 Paulin Hountondji's Postcolonial Sociology of Knowledge 119

9 Antonio Negri's Theory of Empire 136

10 Bread and Waratahs: A Letter to the Next Left 154

Acknowledgements 167

References 170

Index 187