The starting point of Ann Oakley's fascinating book is the fracture of her right arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA. What begins as an accident becomes a journey into some critical themes of mod
Identifies gender-based power structures that are prevalent throughout humanity and how they compromise community and the planet, arguing against common beliefs while explaining why traditional gender
Decades before the establishment of the earliest systems of Western social welfare, scores of intrepid women forged a path toward turning these theoretical ideas into reality. Their research lay the g
Policy analyst Richard Titmuss became famous as one of the most staunch and outspoken defenders of the welfare state and its underlying values, and in this book his daughter, Ann Oakley, offers us an
A breakthrough study of gender bias in the social sciences from a leading feminist scholar. Ann Oakley came to widespread attention as part of the new school of British feminists to emerge in the 1960
This book brings together edited extracts from classic texts by the internationally renowned feminist sociologist, Ann Oakley.Many of Oakley's early works are out of print and this collection makes th
Author Ann 0akley (sociology and social policy, University College London Institute of Education) is a pioneering social researcher active over the past 50 years. In this work, first published in 1
First published in 1979, this classic of social science presents the results of original research by Ann 0akley (UCL Institute of Education), a pioneering female social researcher. Oakley reports o
Drawing on her long experience as an academic researcher and writer, Ann Oakley develops a sociology of the research process itself, telling the story of how a research project is undertaken and what
Long before the earliest welfare systems were put into place, women were researching the conditions of social and economic life in Western nations, and their research would go on to inform the nascent
Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventio
