23 Facts About Raewyn Connell

Raewyn Connell's father, William Fraser Connell, was a Professor of Education at the University of Sydney for many years, where he focused on educational research and teaching.

Raewyn Connell's mother, Margaret Lloyd Connell was a high school science teacher.

Raewyn Connell has two sisters, Patricia Margaret Selkirk and Helen Raewyn Connell.

Raewyn Connell was educated at Manly and North Sydney High Schools, and has degrees from the University of Melbourne and University of Sydney.

Raewyn Connell was a rank-and-file member of the Australian Labor Party until the early 1980s and a trade unionist, currently in the National Tertiary Education Union.

Raewyn Connell has been considered a prominent intellectual of the Australian New Left.

Raewyn Connell was appointed University Professor at the University of Sydney in 2004, and retired from her University Chair on July 31,2014.

Raewyn Connell has been Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney since her retirement.

Raewyn Connell is a trans woman, who formally began transitioning late in life.

Raewyn Connell has written about trans women and feminism from an international perspective.

Raewyn Connell's sociology emphasises the historical nature of social reality and the transformative character of social practice.

Raewyn Connell's writing tries to combine empirical detail, structural analysis, critique, and relevance to practice.

Raewyn Connell has written or co-written twenty-one books and more than 150 research papers, and her work has been translated into 18 languages.

Raewyn Connell first became known for research on large-scale class dynamics, and the ways class and gender hierarchies are re-made in the everyday life of schools.

In contrast to feminism, masculine politics, according to Raewyn Connell, cannot be a political movement.

Raewyn Connell is best known outside Australia for studies of the social construction of masculinities.

Raewyn Connell was one of the founders of this research field, and her book "Masculinities" is the most-cited in the field.

Hegemonic masculinity, a theory developed by Raewyn Connell, has had a significant impact on feminist sociology.

Raewyn Connell has been an advisor to UNESCO and UNO initiatives relating men, boys and masculinities to gender equality and peacemaking.

Raewyn Connell has developed a sociology of intellectuals that emphasizes the collective character of intellectual labour, and the importance of its social context.

Raewyn Connell analysed examples of theoretical work deriving from the global South: including the work of Paulin Hountondji, Ali Shariati, Veena Das, Ashis Nandy and Raul Prebisch.

Raewyn Connell has explored the implications of Southern Theory on gender theory, neoliberalism, and other global knowledge projects.

Raewyn Connell continues to argue in these contexts that historical power differentiations are maintained through imperialistic privileging of thought and that decolonizing this construction of knowledge can revolutionize societies across the globe.