Ann Oakley

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Ann Oakley , née Ann Titmuss , (* 1944 ) is a British sociologist , author and feminist .

Life

After attending school, the only daughter of the social scientist and economist Richard Titmuss studied at Chiswick Polytechnic and Somerville College at the University of Oxford . She began her writing career in the early 1970s and wrote numerous works, often dealing with the role of the sexes, such as Sex, Gender and Society (1972) and The Sociology of Housework (1974). Together with Juliet Mitchell , she first wrote The Rights and Wrongs of Woman (1976) and What is Feminism (1986).

Her best-known book The Men's Room (1988) was made into a television series by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) . In 1991 she accepted a professorship for sociology and social policy at the Department of Education at the University of London and has been teaching there ever since. Her book Essays on Women, Medicine and Health was published in 1994 .

Publications

  • Sex, gender and society. 1972
  • Housewife. 1974
  • The sociology of housework. 1974
  • Becoming a mother. 1979
  • Women confined. 1980
  • From here to maternity. 1981
  • Subject women. 1981
  • The captured womb. 1984
  • Taking it like a woman. 1984
  • Miscarriage. 1984
  • Telling the truth about Jerusalem. 1986
  • The men's room. 1988
  • Matilda's mistake. 1990
  • Helpers in childbirth. 1990
  • Social Support and Motherhood. 1992
  • Scenes Originating In The Garden Of Eden. 1993
  • Essays on women, medicine and health. 1993
  • The secret lives of Eleanor Jenkinson. 1993
  • Man and wife. 1996
  • A proper holiday. 1996
  • Man & Wife - Richard And Kay Titmuss. 1997
  • Public policy experimentation. 1999
  • The Men's Room , 2000
  • Experiments in Knowing. 2000
  • Evidence. 2001
  • Gender on Planet Earth. 2002
  • The Ann Oakley Reader. 2005
  • Fracture. 2007
in German language
  • Housework Sociology. Verlag Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-87877-121-5 . (Original title The Sociology of Homework. )
  • A woman like me. Biography of a generation of women. Beltz, Weinheim 1986, ISBN 3-407-85069-4 . (Original title Taking It Like A Woman )
  • Matilda's mistake. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-13160-9 . (Original title Matilda's Mistake )

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personal data
SURNAME Oakley, Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Titmuss, Ann (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist, author and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944