The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women and Social ScienceAnn 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, The Sociology of Housework, Becoming a Mother and Women Confined, presented alongside some of Ann Oakley's more recent reflections on methodology, scientific method and research practice. The book illustrates how Oakley's thinking has evolved over a period in which much in the field of gender and women's studies has changed. Each section of the book is prefaced by Oakley's reflections on how her original studies relate to more recent research and theoretical perspectives. There are many points of intersection with modern debates about how (and whether) to 'do' gender and what terms such as 'women' and 'men' really mean. The result is a valuable commentary on thirty years' work on women, gender and social science methodology which will be of interest to many, especially undergraduate and A-level students, as well as all those grappling with current issues about the past and future of work in the contested areas of gender, women's studies and feminist social science. |
Contents
Sex and gender | 1 |
one The difference between sex and gender | 7 |
two Genes and gender | 13 |
three A kind of person | 21 |
four Childhood lessons | 31 |
five Science gender and womens liberation | 41 |
Housework and family life | 53 |
one On studying housework | 59 |
one The agony and the ecstasy | 123 |
two Lessons mothers learn | 139 |
three Medical maternity cases | 151 |
four Mistakes and mystiques of motherhood | 179 |
sexism in sociology | 189 |
two Reflections thirty years on | 207 |
a contradiction interms? | 217 |
five Whos afraid of the randomised controlled trial? Some dilemmas of | 233 |
three Work conditions | 75 |
four Standards and routines | 87 |
five Marriage and the division of labour | 93 |
six Helping with baby | 103 |
seven Houseworkin history and culture | 109 |
Childbirth motherhood and medicine | 117 |
some thoughts on a personal and public trajectory | 245 |
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