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Book Review: Which way is Up?

Book Review: Which way is Up? 102 Australian Journal of Education Which Way Is Up? by R. W. Connell. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1983.278 pp. $19.95 cloth, $9.95 paper. The sub-title of this book describes it perfectly-'Essays in Class, Sex and Culture'. There are thirteen chapters, seven of which have been published before elsewhere; five are on sex, four on class, and four on culture. There is a full (fourteen pages) list of references and both a name and a subject index. The level of argument is high and the style clear. Throughout, innovative and worthwhile points are made. In the first section on Sex, the use, for example, ofSartre's and the same situa- ideas of 'series' - people socially defined 'as being severally in one tion' (p. 68) - in a discussion on class and gender enables Connell to develop a new stance on the interrelationship between these two concepts and on praxis in this con- nection. In the second section on Class, the dissection of the logic of Bourdieu's theory of reproduction is devastating; the conclusion reached is that 'theories have to make untenable assumptions about class structure to be able to talk about its reproduction and do not (and probably cannot) give http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Book Review: Which way is Up?

Musgrave, P. W.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 28 (1): 2 – Apr 1, 1984
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© 1984 Australian Council for Educational Research.
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102 Australian Journal of Education Which Way Is Up? by R. W. Connell. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1983.278 pp. $19.95 cloth, $9.95 paper. The sub-title of this book describes it perfectly-'Essays in Class, Sex and Culture'. There are thirteen chapters, seven of which have been published before elsewhere; five are on sex, four on class, and four on culture. There is a full (fourteen pages) list of references and both a name and a subject index. The level of argument is high and the style clear. Throughout, innovative and worthwhile points are made. In the first section on Sex, the use, for example, ofSartre's and the same situa- ideas of 'series' - people socially defined 'as being severally in one tion' (p. 68) - in a discussion on class and gender enables Connell to develop a new stance on the interrelationship between these two concepts and on praxis in this con- nection. In the second section on Class, the dissection of the logic of Bourdieu's theory of reproduction is devastating; the conclusion reached is that 'theories have to make untenable assumptions about class structure to be able to talk about its reproduction and do not (and probably cannot) give

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