The Ann Oakley reader : : Gender, women and social science / / Ann Oakley.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Sources of extracts
- Foreword by Germaine Greer
- Preface
- Sex and gender
- Introduction
- The difference between sex and gender
- Genes and gender
- A kind of person
- Childhood lessons
- Science, gender and women’s liberation
- Housework and family life
- Introduction
- On studying housework
- Images of housework
- Work conditions
- Standards and routines
- Marriage and the division of labour
- Helping with baby
- Housework in history and culture
- Childbirth, motherhood and medicine
- Introduction
- The agony and the ecstasy
- Lessons mothers learn
- Medical maternity cases
- Mistakes and mystiques of motherhood
- Doing social science
- Introduction
- The invisible woman: sexism in sociology
- Reflections thirty years on
- On being interviewed
- Interviewing women: a contradiction in terms?
- Who’s afraid of the randomized controlled trial? Some dilemmas of the scientific method and ‘good’ research practice
- Paradigm wars: some thoughts on a personal and public trajectory
- General bibliography
- Bibliography of work by Ann Oakley
- Ann Oakley: further reading
- Index