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  • - Becoming a Mother
    by Ann Oakley
    £64.49

    Ann Oakley interviewed 60 women to find out what it's really like to have a baby. She discusses 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.

  • by Ann Oakley
    £28.49 - 74.49

    Ann Oakley analysed the perceptions of 40 urban housewives around housework, their feelings of monotony and fragmentation, the length of their working week, the importance of standards and routines, and their attitudes to different household tasks. This classic book paved the way for the sociological study of many more aspects of women's lives.

  • - Midwifery Today
    by Ann Oakley
    £45.49

  • by Ann Oakley
    £36.49 - 123.99

  • - Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
    by Ann Oakley
    £63.49

    This is a fascinating and highly readable biography of Barbara Wootton, 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 wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords.

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