Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender, and Social Science
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1447318102 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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“A riveting book. There is very little direct expression of emotion so that when it comes it is surprisingly affecting.”. 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. Oakley has put together a collection of short essays and biographical fragments that explore not just her own unusual family life b
Complex, multi-layered construction of a relationship and life lived in and out of the public/academic eye A book which almost defies categorisation, Father and Daughter takes the life of the founder of the discipline of social policy, Richard Titmuss, and examines it from a completely unique viewpoint, that of his daughter, the renowned sociologist/feminist/novelist Ann Oakley. As someone who has studied both social policy and feminism as periph. Makoto Honjo said An insider's view of Richard Titmuss. Having learnt modern British economic history from Titmice Margaret Gowing, this book made interesting reading about the aspects of Richard Titmuss I did not know. Finding that the Titmuss that Oakley portrays is very much the stereotypical absent minded professor, whose liberalism (or shall I say Webbian socialism) was severely challenged b. Don Bowen said Excellent!. Excellent, by any standard. A story about an amazing, extremely well written as one would expect from Ann. This book complements the previous work Man and Wife.
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 sourcesincluding personal interviews and archival researchto set their family history in the larger context of social, economic, and political change in the twentieth century. 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. 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.