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Ann Oakley

Ann Oakley is a writer and a sociologist, best-known for her work on sex and gender, housework, childbirth and feminist social science, and more recently for her work on evidence-based public policy and methodologies of research and evaluation. Her book A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century is published by Bloomsbury Academic.

Articles by Ann Oakley

Woman of substance

Barbara Wootton attended the League of Nations, helped abolish the death penalty and became a magistrate before she was eligible to vote. Ann Oakley reviews a truly remarkable career

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