The Ann Oakley reader by Ann Oakley

The Ann Oakley reader by Ann Oakley

Edited and selected by the author, this reader starts with work first published in the early 1970s. Ann Oakley's research and writing on sex and gender, housework, motherhood, women's health, and social science have influenced many inside and beyond social science, helping to shape the academic study of women and gender up to the present day.

Ann Oakley is one of Britain's most important feminist sociologistsShe has transformed the way that we think about gender, housework, motherhood and methods. This excellent collection provides easy access to her classic works and combines this with an illuminating contemporary commentary." Sylvia Walby, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds
"Oakley articulately demonstrates the importance of her work to contemporary debates, from those about the validity of the study of gender and what terms such as 'women' and 'men' actually mean, to the nature and future of work. ... it provides welcome brain food combined with the warm glow of nostalgia. I loved it." SRA News
"... a very effective synopsis of her work. ... Oakley's Reader is a highly valuable commentary on her work on women, gender and social science methodology." Social Policy
"Ann Oakley's writing was the 'coming to consciousness' for many women in the seventies - the first analysis of the circumstances in which they found themselves. Oakley has edited her earlier accounts ... what is surprising and depressing is how relevant her analysis of the basic mechanisms of women's oppression still is. In the updated version even more information and debate has been compressed and organised into cool and cogent discussion." Professor Germaine Greer

Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, and Founding Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London. She has been researching and writing on topics relating to the position of women, gender, reproduction, family life and the role and construction of women in academic culture for forty years. Her work is widely cited by school and university students and others within and outside academia as having pioneered a feminist social science.

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ISBN 13	9781861346919
ISBN 10	1861346913
Title	The Ann Oakley reader
Author	Ann Oakley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Policy Press
Year published	2005-06-29
Number of pages	320
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