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Sex, Gender and Society

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781472453532 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 5, 2015, cover price $95.95

9780686873990, titled "Sex Gender and Society" | State Mutual Book &Periodical, June 1, 1980, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: What are the differences between the sexes?

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9781472435620 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 5, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: What are the differences between the sexes?

9780851170206 | Subsequent edition (Ashgate Pub Co, June 1, 1986), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Book by Oakley, Ann

Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender, and Social Science

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781447318101 | Policy Pr, December 15, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

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Product Description: 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 wisdom and the first woman to sit as Speaker in the House of Lords in Parliament...read more

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9781849664684 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 15, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century.

Fracture: Adventures of a Broken Body

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Product Description: '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.

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9781861349385 | 1 edition (Policy Pr, April 11, 2007), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781861349378 | 1 edition (Policy Pr, April 11, 2007), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: '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 Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women, And Social Science

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Product Description: This book brings together edited extracts from classic texts by the internationally renowned feminist sociologist, Ann Oakley.Many of Oakley's early works are out of print and this collection makes them available again. There are extracts from pioneering studies such as Sex, Gender and Society, The Sociology of Housework, From Here to Maternity and Women Confined, presented alongside some of Ann Oakley's more recent reflections on methodology, scientific method and research practice...read more

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9781861346926 | Policy Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This book brings together edited extracts from classic texts by the internationally renowned feminist sociologist, Ann Oakley.

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9781861346919 | Policy Pr, June 29, 2005, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: This book brings together edited extracts from classic texts by the internationally renowned feminist sociologist, Ann Oakley.

Private Complaints and Public Health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service

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Product Description: Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities. Most of Titmuss's work has been out of print for many years...read more

By Jonathan Barker (editor) and Ann Oakley (editor)

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9781861345615 | Policy Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists.

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9781861345608 | Policy Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists.

Gender on Planet Earth

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Identifies gender-based power structures that are prevalent throughout humanity and how they compromise community and the planet, arguing against common beliefs while explaining why traditional gender values prevent ethical and humane lifestyles. (view table of contents)

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9781565847682 | New Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 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.

9780745629636 | Polity Pr, October 22, 2002, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Influential author and social scientist Ann Oakley argues that men and women have inherited and reinforce a system of gender differences that has a destructive effect on them, their shared humanity, and the planet.

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9780745629643 | Polity Pr, October 29, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A provocative analysis of gender inequality's destructive effects on our society and our planet.

Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences

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Product Description: 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 personal and professional thinking to examine the historical development of methodology in the social and natural sciences, demonstrating how both fields have been subject to a process of âgendering...read more

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9781565846203 | New Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: The feminist philosopher and social scientist shows how 'gendering' has affected the social and natural sciences as she reconciles the long-standing dichotomy between the quantitative and qualitative methods and demonstrates the tandem use of both experimental and intuitive approaches.

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9780745622576 | Polity Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: 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.

Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences

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Product Description: 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 personal and professional thinking to examine the historical development of methodology in the social and natural sciences, demonstrating how both fields have been subject to a process of âgendering...read more

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9780745622569 | Polity Pr, April 14, 2000, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: Charity Walton seems to have everything she could want: a husband, four children, a lovely house in London, and a successful career as a sociologist. Then she meets Mark Carleton, the incoming Head of the Sociology Department where she works: clever, handsome, and American...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780689120503, titled "The Men's Room" | Atheneum, March 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Two sociology professors fall in love and carry on a whirlwind, adventurous affair despite their respective marriages, in a story that probes the boundaries constructed by marriage and the limits of abandon

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9781860495335, titled "Mens Room" | Reissue edition (Little Brown Uk, June 1, 1999), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Charity Walton seems to have everything she could want: a husband, four children, a lovely house in London, and a successful career as a sociologist.

9780804106474, titled "The Men's Room" | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, August 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Charity Walton seems to have everything she could want: a husband, four children, a lovely house in London, and a successful career as a sociologist.

Welfare Research: A Critical Review

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By Ann Oakley (editor), Jennie Popay (editor) and Fiona Williams (editor)

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9781857282696 | Ucl Pr Ltd, December 1, 1998, cover price $150.00

Welfare Research: A Critique Of Theory And Method

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By Ann Oakley (editor), Jennie Popay (editor) and Fiona Williams (editor)

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9781857282702 | Routledge, November 1, 1998, cover price $65.95

The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy

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Discusses the moral, social, and economic questions posed by modern blood transfusion services (view table of contents)

By John Ashton (editor), Ann Oakley (editor) and Richard Morris Titmuss

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9781565844032 | Exp sub edition (New Pr, November 1, 1997), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Discusses the moral, social, and economic questions posed by modern blood transfusion services

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

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Product Description: Has the situation of women improved significantly since the outpouring of activism in the 1960s and '70s? Has what's come to be known as the "backlash" erased women's gains and turned back the clock? Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell have assembled a distinguished, international group of feminist thinkers to tackle the issues confronting the contemporary women's movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Juliet Mitchell (editor) and Ann Oakley (editor)

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9781565843844 | New Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Has the situation of women improved significantly since the outpouring of activism in the 1960s and '70s?

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9781565843851 | New Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The progress in womenâs rights brought about by the feminist activism of the 1960s through the early 1980s is today confronted with a major political backlash.

The Politics of the Welfare State

Product Description: Increasing privatization and greater reliance on the market have changed the concept of the welfare state. This coherent volume examines recent developments and assesses the implications for the rights of citizenship and the role of welfare in society...read more

By Ann Oakley and A. Susan Williams

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9781857282054 | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1994, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Increasing privatization and greater reliance on the market have changed the concept of the welfare state.

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9781857282061 | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1994, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Increasing privatization and greater reliance on the market have changed the concept of the welfare state.

Young People, Health and Family Life

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By Julia Brannen, Kathryn Dodd, Ann Oakley and Pamela Storey

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9780335190973 | Open Univ Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $49.95

Essays on Women, Medicine and Health

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Product Description: In this collection of essays, Ann Oakley, one of the most influential social scientists of the last twenty years, brings together the best of her work on the sociology of women's health. She focuses on four main themes--divisions of labour, motherhood, technology and methodology--and in her own inimitable style, combines serious academic discourse from a feminist sociological perspective with a practical understanding of what it is to be women facing the often impersonal world of twentieth-century medicine...read more

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9780748604418 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $92.00

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9780748604500 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, Ann Oakley, one of the most influential social scientists of the last twenty years, brings together the best of her work on the sociology of women's health.

Social Support and Motherhood: The Natural History of a Research Project

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Product Description: Drawing on her expertise as an academic researcher and as a writer of both non-fiction and fiction, Ann Oakley here tells the story of a research project. Moving far beyond the conventional format of the research report, this book develops a sociology of the research process itself, centering on the telling of a story about how and why the research came into being, and what happened when it did...read more

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9780631182733 | Blackwell Pub, March 1, 1993, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: Drawing on her expertise as an academic researcher and as a writer of both non-fiction and fiction, Ann Oakley here tells the story of a research project.

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9780631182740 | Blackwell Pub, October 1, 1992, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Drawing on her expertise as a academic researcher and as a writer of both non-fiction and fiction, Ann Oakley here tells the story of a research project as it has never been told before.

Helpers in Childbirth: Midwifery Today

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Product Description: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Susanne Houd and Ann Oakley

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9781560320364 | Routledge, May 1, 1990, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1990.

What Is Feminism?

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Essays discuss feminist theories, child abuse, working women, welfare, motherhood, medicine, legal rights, and conservative feminism

By Juliet Mitchell and Ann Oakley

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9780394722610 | Pantheon Books, December 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss feminist theories, child abuse, working women, welfare, motherhood, medicine, legal rights, and conservative feminism

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

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Traces the history of prenatal medical care from the eighteenth century to the present, discusses technological developments, and looks at how modern medicine has taken control of childbirth

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9780631149712 | Reprint edition (Blackwell Pub, April 1, 1986), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of prenatal medical care from the eighteenth century to the present, discusses technological developments, and looks at how modern medicine has taken control of childbirth

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Traces the history of the women's movement and examines how women's roles in labor, politics, and personal relationships have changed

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9780394749044 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1981, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the women's movement and examines how women's roles in labor, politics, and personal relationships have changed

Becoming a Mother

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9780805237351 | Schocken Books, April 1, 1980, cover price $18.95

Woman's Work: The Housewife, Past and Present

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

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9780394719603 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1976, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Examines the history and nature of the role of housewife and related socio-cultural attitudes since the pre-industrial period

The Sociology of Housework

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The significance for social science of the study of the daily routine of the housewife in emphasized in an analysis of interviews with London housewives that reveal women's attitudes toward themselves and their work. Bibliogs

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9780394730882 | Random House Inc, July 1, 1975, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The significance for social science of the study of the daily routine of the housewife in emphasized in an analysis of interviews with London housewives that reveal women's attitudes toward themselves and their work.

9780394730882 | Random House Inc, July 1, 1975, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The significance for social science of the study of the daily routine of the housewife in emphasized in an analysis of interviews with London housewives that reveal women's attitudes toward themselves and their work.

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