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  • The strange lockdown life of Alice Henry
    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 fin...
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    24,91 €

  • Forgotten Wives
    Ann Oakley
    Throughout history, records of high-achieving women have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Independently performing women 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...
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    39,14 €

  • The Sociology of Housework (Reissue)
    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 t...
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    51,81 €

  • From Here to Maternity (Reissue)
    Ann Oakley
    In this classic re-issue, Ann Oakley interviewed 60 women to find out what it’s really like to have a baby. She uses 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 caring routines and the challenges for the domestic division of labour and to fathers...
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    51,42 €

  • Social Support and Motherhood (Reissue)
    Ann Oakley
    Ann Oakley develops a sociology of the research process, 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. Social support and motherhood is now reissued for a contempora...
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    50,51 €

  • Women, Peace and Welfare
    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...
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    42,80 €

  • Sex, Gender and Society
    Ann Oakley
    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. 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 stud...
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    77,60 €

  • Father and Daughter
    Ann Oakley
    Father and daughter provides an unique ‘insider perspective’ on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science, combining biography of Richard Titmuss and autobiography by his daughter Ann Oakley. ...
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    28,45 €

  • Fracture
    Ann Oakley
    Fracturing her arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA leads Ann Oakley on a journey into some critical themes of modern Western culture. 3 ...
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    30,21 €

  • The Ann Oakley reader
    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. ...
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    48,05 €