John Ashton

Ann Oakley

Richard Morris Titmuss

Discusses the moral, social, and economic questions posed by modern blood transfusion services

From Human Blood to Social Policy

The Gift Relationship

Juliet Mitchell

The progress in women's rights brought about by the feminist activism of the 1960s through the early 1980s is today confronted with a major political backlash. In this book, Carol Gilligan, Carolyn Heilbrun, and a distinguished, international group of feminist thinkers explore the diverse territories that feminist thought and activism have affected over recent years, and the new questions that have arisen during the process.

Seeing Through the Backlash

Who's Afraid of Feminism?

Identifies gender-based power structures that are prevalent throughout humanity and how they compromise community and the planet, explaining why traditional gender values prevent ethical and humane lifestyles.

Gender on Planet Earth

Becoming a Mother

From Here to Maternity

This is a fascinating biography of Barbara Wootton, one of the extraordinary public figures of the 20th century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the woolsack in the House of Lords.

Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

A Critical Woman

What are the differences between the sexes? That is the question that Ann Oakley set out to answer in this pioneering study, now established as a classic in the field. To answer it she draws on the evidence of biology, anthropology, sociology and the study of animal behaviour to cut through popular myths and reach the underlying truth. She demonstrates conclusively that men and women are not two separate groups: rather each individual takes his or her place on a continuous scale. She shows how different societies define masculinity and femininity in different and even opposite ways, and discusses how far observable differences are based on biology and psychology and how far on cultural conditioning. Many books have discussed these vital issues. None, however, have drawn on such an impressively wide range of evidence or discussed it with such clarity and authority. Now newly reissued with a substantial introduction which highlights its continuing relevance, this work will continue to inform and shape dialogues around sex and gender for a new generation of scholars and students.

Sex, Gender and Society

This collection explores the diverse territories that feminist thought and activism have affected over recent years, and examines the backlash both against and within feminism, against change and the threat of change.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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 conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords. Ann Oakley has written a fascinating and highly readable account of the life and work of this singular woman, but the book goes much further. It is an engaged account of the making of British social policy at a critical period seen through the lens of the life and work of a pivotal figure. Oakley tells a story about the intersections of the public and the private and about the way her subject's life unfolded within, was shaped by, and helped to shape a particular social and intellectual context.

Forgotten Wives examines how marriage has contributed to the active ‘disremembering’ of women’s achievements. Ann Oakley uses case studies of four women married to well-known men to ask questions about gender inequality and contributes a fresh vision of how the welfare state developed in the early 20th century.

How Women Get Written Out of History

Forgotten Wives

Flora Penfold is determined to seek out paradise on earth. Forsaking the fleshpots of London she heads for rural bliss in Tickencote, Meltshire - yet the shadow of evil lurks in Elysium.

Scenes Originating in the Garden of Eden

Towards a Sociology of Childbirth

Women Confined

Bundeling van essays, van de hand van historici, sociologen, onderwijzers en literarie critici, over de vraag of de vrouwenbeweging anno 1976 ondertussen gelijke rechten voor vrouwen heeft weten te bewerkstellingen. Hierin twee bijdragen over de onderwijspositie van vrouwen: Pauline Marks over de stereotypering van de vrouwenrol op school en hieruit volgend het minder presteren van meisjes (p. 176-199) en Tessa Blackstone over de verschillende benadering van meisjes en jongens door leerkrachten (p. 199-217). Het gebruikte cijfermateriaal en de bronnen zijn gedateerd.

The Rights and Wrongs of Women

Examines the history and nature of the role of housewife and related socio-cultural attitudes since the pre-industrial period

The Housewife, Past and Present

Woman's Work

'Fracture' mixes personal experience with 'facts' derived from other literatures, including the history of medicine, neurology, the sociology of health and illness, philosophy, and legal discourses on the right to life and people as victims of a greedy litigation system.

Adventures of a Broken Body

Fracture

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

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