This work explores the history, ideology and implications of methodology in the social and natural sciences. It addresses themes of common interest across a number of different fields, including social policy, health and education research and women's studies.[...]
Father and Daughter provides an unique 'insider perspective' on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science. Ann Oakley, a highly respected feminist sociologist and best-selling writer, draws on her own life and that of her father, Richard Titmuss, a well-known policy analyst and def[...]
Discusses the moral, social, and economic questions posed by modern blood transfusion services
This is a fascinating and highly readable biography of Barbara Wootton, 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 Wo[...]
This book brings together edited extracts from classic texts by the internationally renowned feminist sociologist, Ann Oakley. Edited and selected by the author herself, it starts with work first published in the early 1970s. Ann Oakley's research and writing on sex and gender, housework, motherhood[...]