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  • The Science of Housework

    The Home and Public Health, 1880-1940

    by Ann Oakley ...
    In an era of pandemic infection, the importance of hygiene at home and in public spaces has never been greater. This book recaptures the buried history of the household science movement, including domestic science teaching, public health, higher education for women and the scientific content and aims of domestic science courses. It explores how it was viewed in the context of new public health ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Forgotten Wives

    How Women Get Written Out of History

    by Ann Oakley ...
    Throughout history, records of women's lives and work have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Wives, especially, disappear as supporters of their husbands’ work, as unpaid and often unacknowledged secretaries and research assistants, and as managers of men’s domestic domains; even intellectual collaboration tends to be portrayed as normative wifely behaviour rather than ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Women, Peace and Welfare

    A Suppressed History of Social Reform, 1880-1920

    by Ann Oakley ...
    Between 1880 and 1920 many women researched the conditions of social and economic life in Western countries. They were driven by a vision of a society based on welfare and altruism, rather than warfare and competition.Ann Oakley, a leading sociologist, undertook extensive research to uncover this previously hidden cast of forgotten characters. She uses the women’s stories to bring together the ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Sociology of Housework

    by Ann Oakley ...
    In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed sociologist Ann Oakley undertook one of the first serious sociological studies to examine women’s work in the home. She interviewed 40 urban housewives and analysed their perceptions of housework, their feelings of monotony and fragmentation, the length of their working week, the importance of standards and routines, and their attitudes to different ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Social Support and Motherhood

    The Natural History of a Research Project

    by Ann Oakley ...
    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 happens during it, to both researchers and those who are researched. This remarkable book focuses on a topic of great importance in the provision of health services – caring and social support.Setting ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The strange lockdown life of Alice Henry

    by Ann Oakley ...
    In a distinguished career lasting nearly sixty years, Ann Oakley has produced trail-blazing publications that span the fiction - non-fiction divide including The Men's Room, made into a BBC TV series with Bill Nighy.This novel is timely, set in the perplexing present of the constraints of the Covid pandemic. Locked down, Alice Henry is determined to decide what to do in her final years - an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Father and Daughter

    Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science

    by Ann Oakley ...
    Father and daughter provides an unique ‘insider perspective’ on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science. Ann Oakley, a highly respected sociologist and best-selling writer, draws on her own life and that of her father, Richard Titmuss, a well-known policy analyst and defender of the welfare state, to offer an absorbing view of the connections between private lives and public ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Critical Woman

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

    by Ann Oakley ...
    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 ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • From Here to Maternity

    Becoming a Mother

    by Ann Oakley ...
    Ann Oakley is a pioneer in the field of sociological research. In this classic re-issue, she interviewed 60 women to find out what it’s really like to have a baby. Covering pregnancy, birth and child care, she relies on the stories mothers tell to discuss whether and why women want to become pregnant, how they imagine motherhood to be, the experience of birth, post-natal depression, feeding and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Welfare Research

    by Fiona William, Jennie Popay, Ann Oakley ...
    First published in 1998. This book attempts to contribute a new framework for social research in the welfare field. As such, it engages with new theories, new approaches and new methods, alongside a constructive critique of both the old and the new. It attempts to illustrate approaches to conceptualization and operationalization within policy-relevant research, to reflect and explore both “new” ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Helpers In Childbirth

    Midwifery Today

    by Ann Oakley, Susanne Houd ...
    A consideration of the role of the midwife in childbirth, which currently stands at the point of divergence between two differing philosophies of childbearing. In one, pregnancy and birth belong to the medical profession, in the other it is a part of the experience of ordinary life. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Fracture

    Adventures of a broken body

    by Ann Oakley ...
    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 modern Western culture: the crisis of embodiment and the perfect self; the confusion between body and identity; the commodification of bodies and body parts; the intrusive surveillance and profiteering ... Read more

    $28.79 USD