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Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender, and Social Science de Ann Oakley

Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender, and Social Science

Autor Ann Oakley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 oct 2014
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. 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 sources—including personal interviews and archival research—to set their family history in the larger context of social, economic, and political change in the twentieth century.

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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781447318101
ISBN-10: 1447318102
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press

Notă biografică

Ann Oakley is professor of sociology and social policy at the Institute of Education at the University of London and the author of many books, including poetry, fiction, biography, and autobiography.

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

“[A] riveting book. . . . Oakley has put together a collection of short essays and biographical fragments that explore not just her own unusual family life but key moments and personalities in the history of twentieth-century social research. . . . Ultimately, she has produced not a tell-all biography but a multifaceted portrait of a brilliant, if insecure, human being who worked unceasingly for the ‘public welfare’, and his only child, who has done the same, if in a very different fashion. 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. . . . There is very little direct expression of emotion so that when it comes it is surprisingly affecting.”

“Intriguing. . . . A very important contribution to historical and sociological scholarship. It is an original and carefully researched corrective to the existing ‘business as usual’ institutional and intellectual history of conflicts and tensions in the development of sociology, social administration, social policy, and the professionalization of social work.”

“Ann Oakley's Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science. . . [is] riveting and revealing about herself and her father, Richard Titmuss, whose work inspired me to work with him as a graduate student at the London School of Economics.”

“Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science is the legendary feminist sociologist Ann Oakley’s brilliant tribute to her father, the late Richard Titmuss. He was a towering figure in the creation of social policy as an academic subject and yet we learn from this narrative about the complexities of living a life of equality.”

“This intriguing and multilayered book is . . . of great interest for a range of audiences, both within and outside social work and the social sciences. . . . A moving story that [Oakley] tells well and in all its complexity.”

“Father and Daughter is particularly powerful. . . . The writing moves between scholarly exactness, dreamy reverie, and pained resentment.”

“Oakley’s complicated story of how she is still taking stock of her relationship with Richard Titmuss is one of family dynamics and secrets, of politics at the grand and small scale, and of the ongoing process of making sense of who we are.”

“A fascinating study of an eminent father by his eminent daughter. This respected sociologist, feminist, and novelist offers a true ‘insider’s view’ of their relationship.”

“In Father and Daughter, Oakley revisits her childhood years and explores the causal links between her family’s fraught domestic relationships and her father’s idiosyncratic ‘socialist view of inequality’ that excluded gender issues from its policy concerns. This superbly researched memoir will become a classic of its kind—albeit a highly controversial one.”

“I love Oakley’s writing. She interrogates quite beautifully ‘the shadowy spaces’ in which public and private lives overlap and the effect this has, particularly on women.”

“An honest, intriguing, and readable book about the author and her eminent father, her conflicts with him and his conflicts with his female colleagues. I could not put it down!”

“Oakley is a highly original writer. The personal becomes political as she revisits her own history and that of her father.”

“A tribute to the achievements, but many weaknesses of her famous revered father . . . often poignant but always fascinating reading.”