Father And Daughter Patriarchy Gender And Social Science Ann Oakley by Ann Oakley 9781447318101, 1447318102 instant download after payment.

Policy analyst Richard Titmuss became famous as one of the most staunch and outspoken defenders of the welfare state and its underlying values, and in this book his daughter, Ann Oakley, offers us an inside view of his life and work. Oakley, a prominent sociologist herself, mixes biography and autobiography, telling the story of her father’s life in light of her own experience and drawing on a mix of sources—including personal interviews and archival research—to set their family history in the larger context of social, economic, and political change in the twentieth century.
Carrying the intellectual force of an innovative thinker, yet written in clear, compelling language, Father and Daughter is a family story that is at the same time a reflection on gender, patriarchy, and the politics of memory and identity.
“[A] riveting book. . . . Oakley has put together a collection of short essays and biographical fragments that explore not just her own unusual family life but key moments and personalities in the history of twentieth-century social research. . . . Ultimately, she has produced not a tell-all biography but a multifaceted portrait of a brilliant, if insecure, human being who worked unceasingly for the ‘public welfare’, and his only child, who has done the same, if in a very different fashion. Oakley has a fascinating chapter on her own career, which has been highly successful in bald terms but is studded with the usual discriminations, and she ends with a long, hard, pessimistic look at the position of women in academia today. . . . There is very little direct expression of emotion so that when it comes it is surprisingly affecting.”
- Guardian (UK)
“Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science is the legendary feminist sociologist Ann Oakley’s brilliant tribute to her father, the late Richard Titmuss. He was a towering figure in the creation of social policy as an academic subject and yet we learn from this narrative about the complexities of living a life of equality.”
- Miriam E. David, professor emerita, University College London Institute of Education | Times Higher Education
“I love Oakley’s writing. She interrogates quite beautifully ‘the shadowy spaces’ in which public and private lives overlap and the effect this has, particularly on women.”
- Melissa Benn | author of "What Should We Tell Our Daughters?: The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female"