| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Writing a Life of Barbara Wootton -- Ladies of the House -- A Cat Called Plato -- Alma Mater -- Jack -- Cambridge Distinctions -- Real Work -- Fact and Fiction -- George -- Planning for Peace -- Lament for Economics -- Testament for Social Science -- The Nuffield Years, and Vera -- High Barn, and the Other Barbara -- Crime and Penal Policy -- Madam Speaker -- Incurable Patient -- In the World She Never Made. |
| Summary |
"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."--Publisher's description. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Wootton, Barbara, 1897-1988.
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Wootton, Barbara, 1897-1988. (OCoLC)fst01734171
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Women social scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Social scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Women intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- Social policy -- History -- 20th century.
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Intellectuals. (OCoLC)fst00975799
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Social policy. (OCoLC)fst01122738
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Social scientists. (OCoLC)fst01123063
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Women intellectuals. (OCoLC)fst01178059
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Women social scientists. (OCoLC)fst01178546
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Kvinnor -- sociologi -- Storbritannien.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oakley, Ann. Critical woman. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2011 9781849664684 (OCoLC)755643631 |
| ISBN |
9781849664707 (ebook) |
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1849664706 (ebook) |
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9781849664691 (e-book) |
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1849664692 (e-book) |
| Standard No. |
9786613149060 |
| ISBN |
9781849664684 (hardback) |
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9781849664769 |
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1849664684 (hardback) |
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1849664765 |
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1283149060 |
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9781283149068 |
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9786613149060 |
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6613149063 |
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