Taking It Like a Woman
by Ann Oakley
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION At twenty-five Ann Oakley had a degree, a husband, a house and two children. Yet she felt exhausted, depressed and unfulfilled. On reading the claim that 'successful work is not part of the traditional female role' her depression turned to anger and her depression turned to anger and her feminism was born. Breaking new ground with a thesis on housework, which led to research and writings on maternity and motherhood, she also began a rigorous struggle to reconcile the show more demands of love, marriage and her family with those of her personal identity. In this startling autobiography, Ann Oakley, now one of our most highly respected feminists and a bestselling novelist, enters the most fiercely emotional compounds – marriage, family, breakdown, cancer – and courageously throws them open for inspection, analysing with rare insight the problem, as she defines it, of being born a woman in a man's world. "Oakley addresses her audience with candour and assurance in a book which is thrilling and rewarding to read. A contrary, combative and often appallingly funny account… By the time I had reached the final page I felt like cheering"PHILIP OAKES,' New Society ' show lessTags
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Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the UCL Institute of Education. A social researcher for more than 50 years, and author of many academic publications, she is also well known for her biography, autobiography and fiction. She founded both the Social Science Research Unit and the EPPI-Centre at the UCL Institute of Education, show more and has a long-term interest in gender, welfare, and the shaping of public policy. show less
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- Sexuality and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 305.4 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women
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- HQ1595 .O34 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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