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oapen-20.500.12657-586932022-10-15T03:16:36Z A Critical Woman Oakley, Ann Biography: historical, political and military bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups::JFSJ1 Gender studies: women bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords. Ann Oakley has written a fascinating and highly readable account of the life and work of this singular woman, but the book goes much further. It is an engaged account of the making of British social policy at a critical period seen through the lens of the life and work of a pivotal figure. Oakley tells a story about the intersections of the public and the private and about the way her subject's life unfolded within, was shaped by, and helped to shape a particular social and intellectual context. 2022-10-14T14:51:57Z 2022-10-14T14:51:57Z 2011 book ONIX_20221014_9781849664707_24 9781849664707 9781849664691 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58693 eng application/pdf n/a 9781849664691.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781849664769 10.5040/9781849664769 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781849664707 9781849664691 Bloomsbury Academic 464 London open access
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords. Ann Oakley has written a fascinating and highly readable account of the life and work of this singular woman, but the book goes much further. It is an engaged account of the making of British social policy at a critical period seen through the lens of the life and work of a pivotal figure. Oakley tells a story about the intersections of the public and the private and about the way her subject's life unfolded within, was shaped by, and helped to shape a particular social and intellectual context.
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