Published
Oct 22, 2014Page count
256 pagesISBN
978-1447318101Dimensions
216 x 138 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Oct 22, 2014Page count
256 pagesISBN
978-1447318125Dimensions
Imprint
Policy PressPublished
Oct 22, 2014Page count
256 pagesISBN
978-1447318132Dimensions
Imprint
Policy Press
Father and Daughter
Father and daughter provides an unique ‘insider perspective’ on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science. Ann Oakley, a highly respected sociologist and best-selling writer, draws on her own life and that of her father, Richard Titmuss, a well-known policy analyst and defender of the welfare state, to offer an absorbing view of the connections between private lives and public work. Using an innovative mix of biography, autobiography, intellectual history, archives, and personal interviews, some of which have not been previously available to the public, she provides a compelling narrative about gender, patriarchy, methodology, and the politics of memory and identity. This fascinating analysis defies the usual social science publications to offer a truly distinctive account which will be of wide interest.
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, and has a long-term interest in gender, welfare, and the shaping of public policy.
Daughter of a Blue Plaque Man;
Falling into the Bog of History;
Memory and Identity;
Family and Kinship in London and Other Places;
Mrs Titmuss’s Diaries;
Love and Solitude;
The Story of the Titmice: an alternative version;
Meeting Win;
Harem in Houghton Street;
Difficult Women;
Post-Mortem;
The Troubles;
Dusting his Bookshelves;
Vera's Rose;
This Procession of Educated Men;
Telling stories.
