Following on from her classic autobiography Taking it like a Woman, Oakley examines the relationship of her parents (her father helped to found the Welfare State), revealing the conflicts between public themes and personal lives.

Man and wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss : my parents' early years

Biographies & Memoirs

Ann Oakley

Community & Culture

Harpercollins

Subject Women

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Fontana Press

Scenes Originating from the Garden of Eden

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Flamingo

Overheads

This autobiography records the author's struggle to reconcile the demands of love, marriage and the family with those of her personal identity. The author analyzes the problem, as she defines it, of being born a woman in a man's world.

Taking It Like a Woman

Two sociology professors fall in love and carry on a whirlwind, adventurous affair despite their respective marriages, in a story that probes the boundaries constructed by marriage and the limits of abandon

The Men's Room

Taking it Like a Woman

Traces the history of the women's movement and examines how women's roles in labor, politics, and personal relationships have changed

What are the differences between the sexes? That is the question that Ann Oakley set out to answer in this pioneering study, now established as a classic in the field. To answer it she draws on the evidence of biology, anthropology, sociology and the study of animal behaviour to cut through popular myths and reach the underlying truth. She demonstrates conclusively that men and women are not two separate groups: rather each individual takes his or her place on a continuous scale. She shows how different societies define masculinity and femininity in different and even opposite ways, and discusses how far observable differences are based on biology and psychology and how far on cultural conditioning. Many books have discussed these vital issues. None, however, have drawn on such an impressively wide range of evidence or discussed it with such clarity and authority. Now newly reissued with a substantial introduction which highlights its continuing relevance, this work will continue to inform and shape dialogues around sex and gender for a new generation of scholars and students.

Sex, Gender and Society

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Harper Colophon Books

From Here to Maternity:Becoming a Mother (Pelican)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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