Ann Oakley

This article is about the sociologist and writer. For the sharpshooter, see Annie Oakley.

Ann Rosamund Oakley
Born
Ann Rosamund Titmuss

(1944-01-17) 17 January 1944
OccupationProfessor and Founder-Director of the Social Science Research Unit at University College London
NationalityBritish
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford; Bedford College, University of London
GenreNon-fiction Sociology and Fiction (novelist)
SubjectSociology and Gender
Notable worksThe Men's Room (adapted for BBC television); The Sociology of Housework
RelativesProfessor Richard Titmuss (father)
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Ann Rosamund Oakley (née Titmuss; born 17 January 1944) is a British sociologist and writer. She is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, and founder-director of the Social Science Research Unit and the EPPI Centre at the Social Research Institute at University College London. She is also an Honorary Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.[1]

Biography

Oakley is the only child of Professor Richard Titmuss[2] and wrote a biography of her parents as well as editing some of his works for re-publication. Her mother Kathleen, née Miller, was a social worker.

Ann Oakley was born in London in 1944. She was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Chiswick Polytechnic and Somerville College, Oxford University taking her Bachelor of Arts in 1965, having married fellow future academic Robin Oakley the previous year. In the next few years Ann Oakley worked as a researcher and wrote fiction and scripts for children's television. Returning to formal education at Bedford College, University of London, she gained a PhD in 1974 with a thesis on women's attitudes to housework, from which several of her early books were derived. Much of her early sociological research focused on gender and women's health.

In 1985, Oakley moved to work at the Institute of Education in London where she set up the Social Science Research Unit (SSRU) in 1990, and the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information Centre (EPPI Centre) in 1993.

Ann Oakley has written numerous academic works, of which the best known include Sex, Gender and Society (1972), Housewife (1974), The Sociology of Housework (1974), Becoming a Mother (1980), Experiments in Knowing (2000), Gender on Planet Earth (2002), and Woman, Peace and Welfare (2019). She has also written a number of novels, of which the best known is The Men's Room, which was adapted by Laura Lamson for BBC television in 1991, and which starred Harriet Walter and Bill Nighy. She also wrote an early partial autobiography, Taking it Like a Woman (1984). Her biographical work includes a study of the life and work of the social scientist and life peer, Barbara Wootton, along with two books focusing on the lives of her parents. She has also made important contributions to debates about sociological research methods.[3]

Main Publications[4]

Non-fiction

  • Oakley, Ann (1993) [1972]. Sex, gender and society. Aldershot: Arena, published in association with New Society. ISBN 9781857421712. OCLC 919620585.
  • Oakley, Ann (1990) [1974]. Housewife (2nd ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 9780140135237. OCLC 495472105.
  • Oakley, Ann (1985) [1974]. The Sociology of Housework. Oxford (England) / New York: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 9780631139249. OCLC 924848490. (also translated into German, Dutch, Japanese, and Chinese).
  • Oakley, Ann (1976). Woman's work: the housewife, past and present. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780394719603. OCLC 780658245. (Re-titled version of Housewife – 1974)
  • Oakley, Ann; Mitchell, Juliet (1976). The rights and wrongs of women. Harmondsworth (England) / New York: Penguin. ISBN 9780140216165. OCLC 471591152.
  • Oakley, Ann (1980). Becoming a mother. New York: Schocken Books. ISBN 9780805237351. OCLC 757264967.
Reprinted as: Oakley, Ann (1981). From here to maternity: becoming a mother. Harmondsworth (England): Penguin. ISBN 9780140222562. OCLC 1050037773.
  • Oakley, Ann (1980). Women confined: towards a sociology of childbirth. Oxford (England): M. Robertson. ISBN 9780855202118. OCLC 493259989.
  • Oakley, Ann (1982) [1981]. Subject women. London: Fontana. ISBN 9780006860594. OCLC 12972093.
  • Oakley, Ann (1984). The captured womb: a history of the medical care of pregnant women. Oxford (England) / New York: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 9780631149712. OCLC 10924942.
  • Oakley, Ann (1985) [1984]. Taking it like a woman. London: Flamingo. ISBN 9780006545118. OCLC 27217573.
  • Oakley, Ann; Mitchell, Juliet (1986). What is feminism?. Oxford (England): Basil Blackwell. ISBN 9780631148432. OCLC 1110738020.
  • Oakley, Ann (1986). Telling the truth about Jerusalem: a collection of essays and poems. Oxford (England) / New York: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 9780631149514. OCLC 924851336.
  • Oakley, Ann; Houd, Susanne (1990). Helpers in childbirth: midwifery today. New York: Hemisphere Pub. Corp. ISBN 9781560320364. OCLC 299448341.
  • Oakley, Ann (1992). Social support and motherhood: the natural history of a research project. Oxford (England) / Cambridge (United States): Blackwell. ISBN 9780631182740. OCLC 231538886.
  • Oakley, Ann (1993). Essays on women, medicine and health. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748604500. OCLC 924787520.
  • Oakley, Ann; Williams, A. Susan, eds. (1994). The politics of the welfare state. London: UCL Press. ISBN 9781857282061. OCLC 1082488380.
  • Oakley, Ann (1997) [1996]. Man and wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: my parents' early years. London: Flamingo. ISBN 9780006550136. OCLC 39103232.
  • Oakley, Ann; Mitchell, Juliet (1997). Who's afraid of feminism?: seeing through the backlash. New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton. ISBN 9781565843851. OCLC 1078656940.
  • Oakley, Ann (2000). Experiments in knowing: gender and method in the social sciences. Cambridge (England): Polity Press. ISBN 9780745622576. OCLC 758209469.
  • Oakley, Ann (2002). Gender on planet Earth. New York: The New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9781565847682. OCLC 187766124.
  • Oakley, Ann (2007). Fracture: adventures of a broken body. Bristol (England): Policy Press. ISBN 9781861349378. OCLC 1170080065.
  • Oakley, Ann (2011). A critical woman: Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy in the twentieth century. London: Bloomsbury Academic. doi:10.5040/9781849664769. ISBN 9781283149068. OCLC 745368911.
  • Oakley, Ann (2014). Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, gender and social science. Bristol (England): Policy Press. ISBN 9781447318101. OCLC 924827444.
  • Oakley, Ann (2019). Women, Peace and Welfare: A suppressed history of social reform, 1880-1920. Bristol (England): Policy Press. ISBN 9781447332626. OCLC 1059230664.
  • Oakley, Ann (2021). Forgotten Wives: How women get written out of history. Bristol (England): Policy Press. ISBN 9781447355847. OCLC 10017733828.
  • Oakley, Ann (2024). The Science of Housework: Homes and health, 1880-1940. Bristol (England): Policy Press. ISBN 9781447369622. OCLC 1446161977.

Fiction

References

  1. ^ Ann Oakley: Personal website https://www.annoakley.co.uk/
  2. ^ For Ann Oakley's life and career, see Crow, Graham (2024), Chapter 2
  3. ^ see Crow (2024), Chapter 4
  4. ^ For full list of publications, see personal website: https://www.annoakley.co.uk

Further reading

  • Oakley, Ann (2005). The Ann Oakley reader: Gender, woman and social science. Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN 9781861346919. OCLC 8183080254.
  • Crow, Graham (2005). The Art of Sociological Argument (Ch.2 "Ann Oakley: Sociology as Emancipation"). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333778449.
  • Crow, Graham (2024). The Emerald Guide to Ann Oakley. Leeds: Emerald Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781800715646. OCLC 1443718682.


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