Ann S Oakley

A Proper Holiday

Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss My Parents' Early Years

The Secret Lives of Eleanor Jenkinson

The Rights and Wrongs of Women

Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing Through the Backlash

Young People, Health and Family Life

Woman's Work: The Housewife, Past and Present

The Sociology of Housework

Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing Through the Backlash

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. For Who’s Afraid of Feminism?, editors Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell have commissioned new work by Carol Gilligan, Carolyn Heilbrun, and a ...

The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy

Richard M. Titmuss’s The Gift Relationship has long been acknowledged as one of the classic texts on social policy. Honored by the New York Times as one of the ten most important books of the year when it first appeared in 1970, Titmuss’s The Gift Relationship is even more topical now in an age of A...

Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences

Ann Oakley came to widespread attention as part of the new school of British feminists to emerge in the 1960s, and has since earned a reputation as one of the most innovative feminist thinkers and social scientists writing today. In Experiments in Knowing, a major new work, Oakley integrates her per...

Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender, and Social Science

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 inside view of his life and work. Oakley, a prominent sociologist herself, mixes biography and autob...

What Is Feminism?

This study contains essays covering health, motherhood, child abuse, social welfare and the law. The book also features, besides some recent work on health, on social policy and on law, theoretical discussions by Hilary Rose, Rosalind Delmar and Juliet Mitchell.

Fracture: Adventures of a Broken Body

'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.

The Captured Womb: A History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women

An analysis of how the general practitioner has been brought into antenatal care.

The Men's Room