R. W. Connell papers, 1951-1991

MLMSS 7807

fonds

1951-1991

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

824706

1.5 metres of textual material (13 boxes), including slides

Robert William (Bob) Connell (b. 1944), sociologist, was the foundation Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University, 1976-1991, before his appointment to the Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University. A History Honours graduate from the University of Melbourne in 1966, he undertook postgraduate research in the Department of Government, Sydney University. He completed his PhD in 1970 and lectured from 1971-1972. Connell had been a leading student activist against the Vietnam War and published a book of poems on the conflict, Firewinds (1968). He also co-founded the Free U (Sydney Free University), a radical, off-campus movement to change teaching methods and content, particularly in tertiary education. He was Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University, 1973-1975.

Connell is well known for his research on class, gender and education. His research projects, including collaborations, have featured children’s political thought, 1966-1969; Sydney adolescents, 1968-1974; Class Structure in Australian History, a major contribution in the Australian sociology of class; school, home and work, 1977-184; theory of gender; the state in sexual politics; transformations of masculinity and the education of boys; and Social Aspects of the Prevention of AIDS (SAPA), established in 1986. He is the author and co-author of a number books, including Politics of the Extreme Right: Warringah 1966 (1967), The Child’s Construction of Politics (1971), Twelve to Twenty: A Study of Teenagers in Sydney (1975), Ruling Class, Ruling Culture: Studies of Conflict, Power and Hegemony in Australian Life (1977), Socialism and Labor: An Australian Strategy (1978), Class Structure in Australian History: Documents, Narrative and Argument (1980), Making the Difference: Schools, Families and Social Division (1982), Which Way Is Up? Essays on Sex, Class and Culture (1983), Teachers' Work (1985), and Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics (1987).

Connell served on the editorial board of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 1973-1975, and was President of the Australian Sociological Association, 1987-1988.

References:
Compiled from the collection
Library correspondence file

Listing includes papers, being mainly subject folders, relating to Connell's academic research, teaching and writings.

BOX 1
‘Strolling Players Poetry Group. SUSP’, 1967-1968, including programmes and copy of Firewinds: Poems on the Vietnam War (1968) by Robert Connell

Diary kept at North Sydney Boys’ High, 1958

‘Book notes’, 1961

‘Social Science notes (in “Biology”)’, 1962?

Commonplace book in Spyro student notebook, 1966-1968

Miscellaneous drafts in Spyrax students notebook, ca. 1965

‘On The Possibility of Action’, 1969, being typescript notes

‘Notes and Sketches’, ca. 1963-1968

‘MSS & Drafts – Experiment in Justice’, 1991

‘MSS The Big Picture [: Changing “Western’ Masculinities in the Perspective of Recent World History]’, being paper for Unravelling Masculinities, University of California at Davis, Feb. 1991

‘MSS ‘Current Position of Labor Left’, being an address, 1991

‘MSS Social Justice in Education – The Key Role of Curriculum’, being address to National Conference of Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Adelaide, July 1991

‘MSS CSAH 2nd Edition Ch. 6’, n.d., re Class Structure in Australian History: Documents, Narrative and Argument (1980)

‘MSS Reasonable Man’, n.d.

‘Adolescent project’, ca. 1970, being selected typescript chapters

‘Class Structure in Australian History’, being typescript

‘Olaf the Green: a story for Jarrah’ by Bob [Connell], being photocopy of illustrated manuscript

BOX 2
‘Transition to Socialism Study Group [Labor Study Group]’, 1978, including letter received from Ted Wheelwright, 23 July 1978

Orders received for Socialism and Labor: An Australian Strategy (1978)

‘”Socialism & Labor” – Reactions’, 1979-1983, being mainly correspondence with Hall Greenland and George Petersen and reviews

‘SMH [The Sydney Morning Herald] Features’, 1986-1987, being Connell’s articles

‘”Socialism & Labor” Talks 1978-88’, including correspondence with, among others, Race Mathews, 1980-1981; agendas of meetings; and notes of talks

‘Annandale Branch ALP’, 1980-1987, being copies of minutes of meetings, motions, correspondence and leaflets

‘”At Large” in Challenge’, 1981-1985, being newscuttings of Connell’s column

‘ABC “Notes on the News”, 1986-1987

‘Future of Socialism – Moving Left’, being correspondence and reviews

‘[Australian Labor Party] Left Strategy Discussion’, 1982-1983, being agendas of meetings and correspondence

‘Broad Left Conference [NSW Institute of Technology, 28-31 Mar. 1986]’, 1985-1986, being agendas, bulletins, correspondence and newscuttings

‘Australian Socialism – Various Statements’, 1970s-1990, being agendas, bulletins, newscuttings and correspondence with, among others, Race Mathews, 1981

‘Labor Party 1971-90 (inc. Politics in the Pub)’, being agendas, correspondence and leaflets

BOX 3
Writings by Connell and others, 1966-1986, including articles and reprints, talks, reports and course outlines

BOX 4
Writings, 1972-1991, including lectures, seminar and conference papers, and course outlines

BOX 5
‘SAANZ [Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand] - History’, 1967-1988, including correspondence and draft constitutions; Sociology Teaching seminars, Macquarie University, 1983; and membership lists of SAANZ, 1967-1969

‘ARSS [Association of Radical Social Science]’, 1972-1973

‘SAANZ Conference’, 1963-1972, being correspondence

‘ANZ Journal of Sociology – Lois 1972-75’, being mainly correspondence with Lois Bryson, Don Edgar and authors of submitted articles

‘SARP [Sydney Adolescent Research Project], 1968-1972, re 12 to 20: Studies of City Youth (1975), including correspondence, chapter drafts, printouts and surveys

‘Data Pool Project – Free U [University]’, 1967-1969, re bibliography on social stratification, including correspondence with Jerzy Zubrzycki, Maureen ?, and D. S. Anderson (Acting Editor, ANZJS)

‘Class Analysis Conferences’, 1975-1977

‘Towards anarchist theory of class & related projects – 1970s-1960s’, 1967-1980, including ‘Studies of the Australian Working Class’

‘SAFA Tobin Foundation’, 1967-1982, re Student Action for Aborigines and condition of Aborigines at Dareton Camp, NSW, 1967-1969; and Peter Tobin Aboriginal Scholarship Foundation

BOX 6
‘RC, RC’, 1975-1980, re Ruling Class, Ruling Culture: Studies of Conflict. Power and Hegemony in Australian Life (1977), including correspondence with Cambridge University Press and reviews

‘SHW – Feedback & Criticism. Mainly Reviews’, 1982-1986, being correspondence re and reviews of Making the Difference: Schools, Families and Social Division

‘Gender & Power’, ca. 1987, being corrected typescript of ‘The Social Bases of Sexual Politics’, published as Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics (1987)

Papers on sexual politics 1974-1983’, being Connell’s writings

‘TATC (unpub.)’, 1979, being first draft of ‘Towards and Anarchist Theory of Class’, being typescript with annotations, additions and corrections

‘Old Papers – Unpublished’, 1970-1987, including articles and students’ study guides

BOX 7
‘Lectures – Old Scripts & Outlines’, 1967-1988

‘BHS 102 Lectures – “Male & Female”’, 1977-1986

‘Love & Power’, 1973-1975, re subject/course at School of Social Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia

‘Courses on Class, Conferences etc 1970s’, 1966-1976

‘SOC Courses’, 1981-1991, being mainly course outlines of Macquarie University

‘Social Policy’, 1976, 1982-1983, re course at Macquarie University

‘SOC 283 Social Analysis’, being student’s assignment, including photographs, n.d.

‘SOC 380 Class Analysis’, 1980-1982, being course outline of Macquarie University

‘EDUC 263’, 1988-1991, re Sociology of Schools & Classrooms course, Macquarie University

‘SOC HONS – Foundations/Methods’, 1983-1990, re sociology honours courses

‘POL SOC – Articles’, 1970-1987, re political socialisation, including correspondence with co-author Murray Goot on joint article, ‘Science and Ideology in American ‘Political Socialisation’ Research, and with American sociologists

BOX 8
‘CSAH [Class Structure in Australian History] 1st draft, ch. 1’, 1971, n.d., with unpublished chapter eight: Australia and World Capitalism’ of 1st edition

‘The Criticism of Established Culture’, 1974, being processed typescript of paper jointly written with Andrew Bear and Chris Hector

Papers on Class, 1968-1977, including 1st abstract of Class Structure in Australian History, and 1st versions of chapters in Ruling Class, Ruling Culture: Studies of Conflict, Power and Hegemony in Australian Life

‘Papers on Class, 2’, 1973-1981

‘CSAH Reviews & follow-ups’, re Class Structure in Australian History, including correspondence with co-author, Terry Irving, and reviews of the book

‘Misc Papers’, 1966-1983, being various writings

BOX 9
Corrected typescript of ‘Social Patterns in Public Opinion: Studies based on the Australian Gallup Polls and other mass survey evidence’ by M. Goot and R. W. Connell, with photocopied typescript of ‘Party Dominance and Partisan Division, 1941-1972’

‘SARP Papers’, 1972-1978, re Sydney Adolescent Research project

‘Mosman ALP: News Plant’, 1967-1978, being branch newsletter

‘At Melbourne U 1962-5’, being newscuttings, some including Connell’s writings, and talk delivered to Dialectic Society, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, mid-1965

‘At Sydney U 1966-9’, including Free University of Sydney, being newscuttings, some including Connell’s writings, correspondence and notes for talks

‘Aust Extreme Right’, 1966-1968, being notes and issue of 50 Club Newsletter, Jan. 1968

‘Free U – P.M.’, 1968-1969, being papers re the Free University of Sydney, including leaflets, newscuttings, newsletters, notes and copy of The Hydrogen Bomb (HMSO, Jan. 1959)

BOX 10
Printed material, 1956-1972, including student publications, featuring Connell’s writings

BOX 11
‘Papers on Children’s Politics’, 1969-1970, being writings

‘Studying History – U of Melb’, 1962-1964, including student notes, essay lists and examination papers

Folder of Connell’s undergraduate essays and papers in History at the University of Melbourne, 1961-1965

Folder of Connell’s undergraduate essays and papers in Psychology at the University of Melbourne, 1963-1965

Folder of Connell’s undergraduate essays and papers in early Australian history at the University of Melbourne, 1963-1965

BOX 12
Papers, 1963-1967, re Bachelor of Arts thesis, being notes, drafts and correspondence

‘ENSW [Early NSW] Civil Establishment Returns’, 1964-1965

Papers re PhD thesis, 1966-1969, including notes, chapter draft and letter received from Don Aitkin, 9 Apr. 1969

‘Sociology – My early efforts’, 1964-1972, including unpublished papers written at the University of Chicago

Machine-readable Fortran IV program (cards)

BOX 13
‘Old Grants + Applications’, 1969-1989

‘MURG [Macquarie University Research Grants] – Past Years’, 1978-1990

‘Uni Politics’, 1989-1990, re Macquarie University Staff Association

Questionnaires and surveys re research projects, 1951-ca. 1990

‘Polls & Surveys – Method & Politics’, 1966- , including letters received from C. B. Christesen, 1972

‘Psychiatry’, 1976, re Psycho-pathology course at Macquarie University

‘Soc of Art’, 1974-1976, re Sociology of Art course at Flinders University of South Australia

‘Book Reviews’, 1960-1991, compiled by Connell, with related correspondence

Ockers & disco-maniacs: A discussion of sex, gender and secondary schooling (2nd ed., revised, 1982)

Box of slides for teaching and Class Structure in Australian History

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