Shifting patterns of gender relations: Interview with 'Masculinities' author Raewyn Connell
By Greg Macdougall
| August 17, 2011
http://rabble.ca/news/2011/08/shifting-patterns-gender-relations-interview-masculinities-author-raewyn-connellRaewyn Connell, an Australian academic who specializes in social constructions of masculinity, brought her wealth of knowledge to Canada to talk about the state of gender equity.
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On a personal level, however, she has a long involvement with gender equity issues, alongside her work with gay men on community education around HIV/AIDS and, having "grappled with gender issues in my personal life as a transsexual woman," it drove an interest in the field and "maybe a little bit has helped me to become aware of the contradictions and complexity in gender, which is good for research of course."
