Ann Oakley Bücher

Forgotten Wives examines how marriage has contributed to the active 'disremembering' of women's achievements. Ann Oakley uses case studies of four women married to well-known men to ask questions about gender inequality and contributes a fresh vision of how the welfare state developed in the early 20th century.

Focusing on the differences between the sexes, this pioneering study by Ann Oakley has become a classic in gender studies. Its newly reissued edition includes a substantial introduction that emphasizes its ongoing significance. Oakley's work remains influential, shaping contemporary discussions on sex and gender for new scholars and students alike, ensuring its relevance in modern academic dialogues.

An analysis of women's unpaid role in the home. Written from a feminist perspective, Housewife aims to challenge the set of conventional values which label work a masculine activity and assign women to the home in the role of wife, mother and housekeeper. Oakley traces the historical development of the housewife role, explores the influence of industrialization and examines the situation of women today. Her analysis is illustrated with four case histories.

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

In a distinguished career lasting nearly sixty years, Ann Oakley has produced trail-blazing publications that span the fiction - non-fiction divide including The Men's Room, made into a BBC TV series with Bill Nighy. This novel is timely, set in the perplexing present of the constraints of the Covid pandemic. Locked down, Alice Henry is determined to decide what to do in her final years - an ongoing muddle of medical, domestic and romantic interruptions. When she stumbles on the unsolved case of social researcher, Maud Davies, found decapitated on a London railway line, she finds a new purpose. The blackly funny narrative weaves together the stories of the two women as Alice becomes obsessed with Maud's fate and determines to solve the mystery of her untimely death.

This book recaptures the buried history of the household science movement, including domestic science teaching, public health, higher education for women and the scientific content and aims of domestic science courses.

Kniha se snaží vysvětlit debaty o rozdílech mezi pohlavími. Autorka mapuje vytváření mužské ženské role formující se v průběhu výchovy. Kniha patří ke klasickým textům disciplíny zvané gender studies