Essays on Women, Medicine and Health

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Edinburgh University Press, 1993 - 295 Seiten
In this collection of essays, Ann Oakley, one of the most influential social scientists of the last twenty years, brings together the best of her work on the sociology of women's health. She focuses on four main themes - divisions of labour, motherhood, technology and methodology - and in her own inimitable style, combines serious academic discourse from a feminist sociological perspective with a practical understanding of what it is to be women facing the often impersonal world of twentieth-century medicine. Updating and substantially expanding on her earlier work, Telling the Truth About Jerusalem, this new collection bridges the medical/social divide in an accessible and personable way.

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Autoren-Profil (1993)

Ann Oakley (born 1944) is a distinguished British sociologist, feminist, and writer. She is Professor and Founder-Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and in 2005 partially retired from full-time academic work to concentrate on herwriting and especially new novels. Oakley is the only daughter of Professor Richard Titmuss and wrote a biography of her parents as well as editing some of his works for recent re-publication. Her mother Kathleen, nee Miller, was a social worker. She was educated at Somerville College, OxfordUniversity taking her BA in 1965, having married fellow future academic Robin Oakley the previous year. In the next few years Oakley wrote scripts for children's television and wrote numerous short stories and had two novels rejected by publishers.

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TitelEssays on Women, Medicine and Health
Edinburgh education and society series
Autor/inAnn Oakley
AusgabeNeuauflage
VerlagEdinburgh University Press, 1993
ISBN0748604502, 9780748604500
Länge295 Seiten
  
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