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'''Ann Rosamund Oakley''' (née '''Titmuss'''; born 17 January 1944),<ref name=Congress>{{cite web |title= Oakley, Ann |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79117216.html |publisher= Library of Congress |accessdate= 27 November 2014 |quote= (Ann Rosamund Oakley, born 17 Jan. 1944, is the real name of Rosamund Clay) }}</ref> is a British [[sociologist]], [[feminist]], and writer. She is professor and founder-director of the Social Science Research Unit at the [[UCL Institute of Education]], and in 2005 partially retired from full-time academic work to concentrate on her writing and especially new novels.
'''Ann Rosamund Oakley''' (née '''Titmuss'''; born 17 January 1944)<ref>{{cite web |title= Oakley, Ann |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79117216.html |publisher= Library of Congress |accessdate= 27 November 2014 |quote= (Ann Rosamund Oakley, born 17 Jan. 1944, is the real name of Rosamund Clay) }}</ref> is a British [[Sociology|sociologist]], [[Feminism|feminist]], and writer. She is professor and founder-director of the Social Science Research Unit at the [[UCL Institute of Education]] of the [[University College London]], and in 2005 partially retired from full-time academic work to concentrate on her writing, especially on new novels.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Oakley is the only daughter of Professor [[Richard Titmuss]] and wrote a biography of her parents as well as editing some of his works for recent re-publication. Her mother Kathleen, née Miller, was a social worker.
Oakley is the only daughter of Professor [[Richard Titmuss]] and wrote a biography of her parents as well as editing some of his works for recent re-publication. Her mother Kathleen, née Miller, was a social worker.


Ann Oakley was born in London in 1944. She was educated at [[Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls]] and [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville College, Oxford University]] taking her BA in 1965, having married fellow future academic Robin Oakley the previous year. In the next few years Oakley wrote scripts for children's television and wrote numerous short stories and had two novels rejected by publishers. Returning to formal education at [[Bedford College (London)|Bedford College, University of London]], she gained a PhD in 1969; the qualification was a study of women's attitudes to housework, from which several of her early books were ultimately derived. Much of her sociological research focused on [[medical sociology]] and [[women's health]]. She has also made important contributions to debates about sociological research methods.
Ann Oakley was born in London in 1944. She was educated at [[Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls]] and [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville College, Oxford University]] taking her Bachelor of Arts in 1965, having married fellow future academic Robin Oakley the previous year. In the next few years Oakley wrote scripts for children's television, wrote numerous short stories and had two novels rejected by publishers. Returning to formal education at [[Bedford College (London)|Bedford College, University of London]], she gained a PhD in 1969; the qualification was a study of women's attitudes to housework, from which several of her early books were ultimately derived. Much of her sociological research focused on [[medical sociology]] and [[women's health]]. She has also made important contributions to debates about sociological research methods.


In 1985 Oakley moved to work at the [[UCL Institute of Education|Institute of Education]] in London where she set up the [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/centres/social-science-research-unit-ssru Social Science Research Unit (SSRU)].
In 1985 Oakley moved to work at the [[UCL Institute of Education|Institute of Education]] in London where she set up the Social Science Research Unit (SSRU).


Ann Oakley has written numerous academic works, many focusing on the lives and roles of women in society as well as several best-selling novels, of which the best-known is probably ''[[The Men's Room]]'', which was adapted by [[Laura Lamson]] for [[BBC]] television in 1991, and which starred [[Harriet Walter]] and [[Bill Nighy]]. She has also written an early partial autobiography. She divides her life between living in London and in a rural house where she does most of her fiction writing. She is a mother and grandmother.
Ann Oakley has written numerous academic works, many focusing on the lives and roles of women in society as well as several best-selling novels, of which the best-known is probably ''[[The Men's Room]]'', which was adapted by [[Laura Lamson]] for [[BBC]] television in 1991, and which starred [[Harriet Walter]] and [[Bill Nighy]]. She has also written an early partial autobiography. She divides her life between living in London and in a rural house where she does most of her fiction writing. She is a mother and grandmother.
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=== Non-fiction ===
=== Non-fiction ===
[[File:TitmussGrave.jpeg|thumb|upright|The grave of Ann Oakley's parents, [[Richard Titmuss|Richard]] and Kay Titmuss, in Highgate Cemetery.]]
[[File:TitmussGrave.jpeg|thumb|upright|The grave of Ann Oakley's parents, [[Richard Titmuss|Richard]] and Kay Titmuss, in Highgate Cemetery.]]
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann (editor) | last2 = Ashton | first2 = John (editor) | last3 = Titmuss | first3 = Richard (author) | author-link3 = Richard Titmuss | title = The gift relationship: from human blood to social policy | publisher = LSE Books | location = London | year = 1997 | origyear = 1972 | isbn = 9780753012017 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann (editor) | last2 = Ashton | first2 = John (editor) | last3 = Titmuss | first3 = Richard (author) | author-link3 = Richard Titmuss | title = The gift relationship: from human blood to social policy | publisher = LSE Books | location = London | year = 1997 | origyear = 1972 | isbn = 9780753012017 | oclc = 59584491 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Sex, gender and society | publisher = Arena, published in association with New Society | location = Aldershot | year = 1993 | origyear = 1972 | isbn = 9781857421712 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Sex, gender and society | publisher = Arena, published in association with New Society | location = Aldershot | year = 1993 | origyear = 1972 | isbn = 9781857421712 |oclc = 919620585 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Housewife | publisher = Penguin | location = London | year = 1990 | origyear = 1974 | edition = 2nd | isbn = 9780140135237 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Housewife | publisher = Penguin | location = London | year = 1990 | origyear = 1974 | edition = 2nd | isbn = 9780140135237 | oclc = 495472105 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = [[The Sociology of Housework]] | publisher = Basil Blackwell | location = Oxford, New York | year = 1985 | origyear = 1974 | isbn = 9780631139249 }} (also translated into German, Dutch and Japanese).
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = [[The Sociology of Housework]] | publisher = Basil Blackwell | location = Oxford (England) / New York | year = 1985 | origyear = 1974 | isbn = 9780631139249 | oclc = 924848490 }} (also translated into German, Dutch and Japanese).
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Woman's work: the housewife, past and present | publisher = Vintage Books | location = New York | year = 1976 | isbn = 9780394719603 }} (Re-titled version of ''Housewife'' – 1974)
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Woman's work: the housewife, past and present | publisher = Vintage Books | location = New York | year = 1976 | isbn = 9780394719603 | oclc = 780658245 }} (Re-titled version of ''Housewife'' – 1974)
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Mitchell | first2 = Juliet | author-link2 = Juliet Mitchell | title = The rights and wrongs of women | publisher = Penguin | location = Harmondsworth New York | year = 1976 | isbn = 9780140216165 | url = https://archive.org/details/rightswrongsofwo0000unse }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Mitchell | first2 = Juliet | author-link2 = Juliet Mitchell | title = The rights and wrongs of women | publisher = Penguin | location = Harmondsworth (England) / New York | year = 1976 | isbn = 9780140216165 | oclc = 471591152 | url = https://archive.org/details/rightswrongsofwo0000unse }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Becoming a mother | publisher = Schocken Books | location = New York | year = 1980 | isbn = 9780805237351 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Becoming a mother | publisher = Schocken Books | location = New York | year = 1980 | isbn = 9780805237351 | oclc = 757264967 }}
::Reprinted as: {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = From here to maternity: becoming a mother | publisher = Penguin | location = Harmondsworth | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780140222562 }}
::Reprinted as: {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = From here to maternity: becoming a mother | publisher = Penguin | location = Harmondsworth (England) | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780140222562 | oclc = 1050037773 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Women confined: towards a sociology of childbirth | publisher = M. Robertson | location = Oxford England | year = 1980 | isbn = 9780855202118 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Women confined: towards a sociology of childbirth | publisher = M. Robertson | location = Oxford (England) | year = 1980 | isbn = 9780855202118 | oclc = 493259989 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Subject women | publisher = Fontana | location = London | year = 1982 | isbn = 9780006860594 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Subject women | publisher = Fontana | location = London | year = 1982 | origyear = 1981 | isbn = 9780006860594 |oclc = 12972093 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = The captured womb: a history of the medical care of pregnant women | publisher = Basil Blackwell | location = Oxford; New York City | year = 1984 | isbn = 9780631149712 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = The captured womb: a history of the medical care of pregnant women | publisher = Basil Blackwell | location = Oxford (England) / New York | year = 1984 | isbn = 9780631149712 | oclc = 10924942 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Taking it like a woman | publisher = Flamingo | location = London | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780006545118 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Taking it like a woman | publisher = Flamingo | location = London | year = 1985 | origyear = 1984 | isbn = 9780006545118 | oclc = 27217573 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Mitchell | first2 = Juliet | author-link2 = Juliet Mitchell | title = What is feminism? | publisher = Basil Blackwell | location = Oxford, UK | year = 1986 | isbn = 9780631148432 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Mitchell | first2 = Juliet | author-link2 = Juliet Mitchell | title = What is feminism? | publisher = Basil Blackwell | location = Oxford (England) | year = 1986 | isbn = 9780631148432 | oclc = 1110738020 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Houd | first2 = Susanne | title = Helpers in childbirth: midwifery today | publisher = Hemisphere Pub. Corp | location = New York | year = 1990 | isbn = 9781560320364 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/helpersinchildbi0000oakl }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Houd | first2 = Susanne | title = Helpers in childbirth: midwifery today | publisher = Hemisphere Pub. Corp | location = New York | year = 1990 | isbn = 9781560320364 | oclc = 299448341 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/helpersinchildbi0000oakl }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Social support and motherhood: the natural history of a research project | publisher = Blackwell | location = Oxford UK Cambridge, United States | year = 1992 | isbn = 9780631182740 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Social support and motherhood: the natural history of a research project | publisher = Blackwell | location = Oxford (England) / Cambridge (United States) | year = 1992 | isbn = 9780631182740 | oclc = 231538886 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Essays on women, medicine and health | publisher = Edinburgh University Press | location = Edinburgh | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780748604500 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/essaysonwomenmed0000oakl }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Essays on women, medicine and health | publisher = Edinburgh University Press | location = Edinburgh | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780748604500 | oclc = 924787520 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/essaysonwomenmed0000oakl }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Williams | first2 = A. Susan | title = The politics of the welfare state | publisher = UCL Press | location = London | year = 1994 | isbn = 9781857282061 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Williams | first2 = A. Susan | title = The politics of the welfare state | publisher = UCL Press | location = London | year = 1994 | isbn = 9781857282061 | oclc = 1082488380 }}
* {{citation | last = Oakley | first = Ann | contribution = Sexuality | editor-last1 = Jackson | editor-first1 = Stevi | editor-last2 = Scott | editor-first2 = Sue | editor-link1 = Stevi Jackson | editor-link2 = Sue Scott (sociologist) | title = Feminism and sexuality: a reader | pages = 35–39 | publisher = Columbia University Press | location = New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780231107082 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}
* {{citation | last = Oakley | first = Ann | contribution = Sexuality | editor-last1 = Jackson | editor-first1 = Stevi | editor-last2 = Scott | editor-first2 = Sue | editor-link1 = Stevi Jackson | editor-link2 = Sue Scott (sociologist) | title = Feminism and sexuality: a reader | pages = 35–39 | publisher = Columbia University Press | location = New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780231107082 | oclc = 802151001 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Man and wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: my parents' early years | publisher = Flamingo | location = London | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780006550136 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Man and wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: my parents' early years | publisher = Flamingo | location = London | year = 1997 | origyear = 1996 | isbn = 9780006550136 | oclc = 39103232 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Mitchell | first2 = Juliet | author-link2 = Juliet Mitchell | title = Who's afraid of feminism?: seeing through the backlash | publisher = New Press Distributed by W.W. Norton | location = New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 9781565843851 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Mitchell | first2 = Juliet | author-link2 = Juliet Mitchell | title = Who's afraid of feminism?: seeing through the backlash | publisher = New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton | location = New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 9781565843851 | oclc = 1078656940 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Williams | first2 = Fiona | last3 = Popay | first3 = Jennie | title = Welfare research: a critical review | publisher = UCL Press | location = London | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780203979365 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann | last2 = Williams | first2 = Fiona | last3 = Popay | first3 = Jennie | title = Welfare research: a critical review | publisher = UCL Press | location = London | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781857282702 | oclc = 924483030 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Experiments in knowing: gender and method in the social sciences | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge UK | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780745622576 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Experiments in knowing: gender and method in the social sciences | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge (England) | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780745622576 | oclc = 758209469 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann (editor) | last2 = Alcock | first2 = Peter (editor) | last3 = Glennerster | first3 = Howard (editor) | last4 = Sinfield | first4 = Adrian (editor) | last5 = Titmuss | first5 = Richard (author) | author-link5 = Richard Titmuss | title = Welfare and wellbeing: Richard Titmuss's contribution to social policy | publisher = Policy Press | location = Bristol England | year = 2001 | isbn = 9781861342997 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann (editor) | last2 = Alcock | first2 = Peter (editor) | last3 = Glennerster | first3 = Howard (editor) | last4 = Sinfield | first4 = Adrian (editor) | last5 = Titmuss | first5 = Richard (author) | author-link5 = Richard Titmuss | title = Welfare and wellbeing: Richard Titmuss's contribution to social policy | publisher = Policy Press | location = Bristol (England) | year = 2001 | isbn = 9781861342997 | oclc = 5104775528 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Gender on planet Earth | publisher = The New Press Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company | location = New York | year = 2002 | isbn = 9781565847682 | url = https://archive.org/details/genderonplanetea0000oakl }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Gender on planet Earth | publisher = The New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company | location = New York | year = 2002 | isbn = 9781565847682 | oclc = 187766124 | url = https://archive.org/details/genderonplanetea0000oakl }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann (editor) | last2 = Barker | first2 = Jonathan (editor) | last3 = Titmuss | first3 = Richard (author) | author-link3 = Richard Titmuss | title = Private complaints and public health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service | publisher = Policy Press | location = Bristol, UK | year = 2004 | isbn = 9781861345608 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Oakley | first1 = Ann (editor) | last2 = Barker | first2 = Jonathan (editor) | last3 = Titmuss | first3 = Richard (author) | author-link3 = Richard Titmuss | title = Private complaints and public health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service | publisher = Policy Press | location = Bristol (England) | year = 2004 | isbn = 9781861345608 | oclc = 538212726 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Fracture: adventures of a broken body | publisher = Policy Press | location = Bristol | year = 2007 | isbn = 9781861349378 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Fracture: adventures of a broken body | publisher = Policy Press | location = Bristol (England) | year = 2007 | isbn = 9781861349378 | oclc = 1170080065 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = A critical woman: Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy in the twentieth century | publisher = Bloomsbury Academic | location = London | year = 2011 | isbn = 9781283149068 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = A critical woman: Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy in the twentieth century | publisher = Bloomsbury Academic | location = London | year = 2011 | isbn = 9781283149068 | oclc = 745368911 | doi = 10.5040/9781849664769 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, gender and social science | publisher = Policy Press | location = Bristol, UK | year = 2014 | isbn = 9781447318101 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, gender and social science | publisher = Policy Press | location = Bristol (England) | year = 2014 | isbn = 9781447318101 | oclc = 924827444 }}


=== Fiction ===
=== Fiction ===
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Telling the truth about Jerusalem: a collection of essays and poems | url = https://archive.org/details/tellingtruthabou0000oakl | url-access = registration | publisher = Basil Blackwell | location = Oxford, UK; New York City, United States | year = 1986 | isbn = 9780631149514 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Telling the truth about Jerusalem: a collection of essays and poems | url = https://archive.org/details/tellingtruthabou0000oakl | url-access = registration | publisher = Basil Blackwell | location = Oxford (England) / New York | year = 1986 | isbn = 9780631149514 | oclc = 924851336 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = The men's room | publisher = Virago | location = London | year = 1988 | isbn = 9780860688853 | title-link = The Men's Room }} (televised)
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = The men's room | publisher = Virago | location = London | year = 1988 | isbn = 9780860688853 | oclc = 246867129 | title-link = The Men's Room }} (televised)
* {{cite book | last = Clay | first = Rosamund ''nom de plume'' | title = Only angels forget | publisher = Virago | location = London | year = 1990 | isbn = 9781853811272 }}
* {{cite book | last = Clay | first = Rosamund [''[[Pen name|nom de plume]]'' of Oakley] | title = Only angels forget | publisher = Virago | location = London | year = 1990 | isbn = 9781853811272 | oclc = 20935151 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Matilda's mistake | publisher = Virago | location = London | year = 1990 | isbn = 9781853812118 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Matilda's mistake | publisher = Virago | location = London | year = 1990 | isbn = 9781853812118 | oclc = 21676207 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = The secret lives of Eleanor Jenkinson | url = https://archive.org/details/secretlivesofele0000oakl | url-access = registration | publisher = Flamingo | location = London | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780006545507 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = The secret lives of Eleanor Jenkinson | url = https://archive.org/details/secretlivesofele0000oakl | url-access = registration | publisher = Flamingo | location = London | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780006545507 | oclc = 475372511 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Scenes originating in the Garden of Eden | publisher = Harper Collins | location = London | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780002243032 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Scenes originating in the Garden of Eden | publisher = HarperCollins<!--without a space in between--> | location = London | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780002243032 | oclc = 473047928 }}
* {{Citation | last = Oakley | first = Ann | contribution = Where the bee sucks | editor-last1 = Williams | editor-first1 = A. Susan | editor-last2 = Jones| editor-first2 = R. G. | title = The Penguin book of erotic stories by women | pages = 384–397 | publisher = Penguin | location = London | year = 2012 | origyear = 1995 | isbn = 9780241965450 }}
* {{Citation | last = Oakley | first = Ann | contribution = Where the bee sucks | editor-last1 = Williams | editor-first1 = A. Susan | editor-last2 = Jones | editor-first2 = R. G. | title = The Penguin book of erotic stories by women | pages = 384–397 | publisher = Penguin | location = London | year = 2012 | origyear = 1996 | isbn = 9780241965450 | oclc = 823688999 }}
* {{Citation | last = Oakley | first = Ann | contribution = Death in the egg | editor-last1 = Williams | editor-first1 = A. Susan | editor-last2 = Jones| editor-first2 = Richard Glyn | title = The Penguin book of modern fantasy by women | pages = 525–532 | publisher = Viking | location = London | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780670859078 }}
* {{Citation | last = Oakley | first = Ann | contribution = Death in the egg | editor-last1 = Williams | editor-first1 = A. Susan | editor-last2 = Jones | editor-first2 = Richard Glyn | title = The Penguin book of modern fantasy by women | pages = 525–532 | publisher = Penguin | location = Harmondsworth | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780670859078 | oclc = 317528903 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = A proper holiday | publisher = Flamingo | location = London | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780006550143 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = A proper holiday | publisher = Flamingo | location = London | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780006550143 | oclc = 43175697 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Overheads | publisher = Flamingo | location = London | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780006512189 }}
* {{cite book | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Overheads | publisher = Flamingo | location = London | year = 2000 | origyear = 1999 | isbn = 9780006512189 | oclc = 44058209 }}


=== Journal articles ===
=== Journal articles ===
* {{Cite journal | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Science, gender, and women's liberation: an argument against postmodernism | journal = [[Women's Studies International Forum]] | volume = 21 | issue = 2 | pages = 133–146 | doi = 10.1016/S0277-5395(98)00005-3 | date = March–April 1998 | ref = harv }}
* {{Cite journal | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Science, gender, and women's liberation: an argument against postmodernism | journal = [[Women's Studies International Forum]] | volume = 21 | issue = 2 | pages = 133–146 | doi = 10.1016/S0277-5395(98)00005-3 | date = March–April 1998 | ref = harv }}
* {{Cite journal | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Gender, Methodology and People's Ways of Knowing: Some Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in Social Science | journal = [[Sociology (journal)|Sociology]] | volume = 32 | issue = 4 | pages = 707–731 | doi = 10.1177/0038038598032004005 | date = 1 November 1998 | ref = harv }}
* {{Cite journal | last = Oakley | first = Ann | title = Gender, methodology and people's ways of knowing: some problems with feminism and the paradigm debate in social science | journal = [[Sociology (journal)|Sociology]] | volume = 32 | issue = 4 | pages = 707–731 | doi = 10.1177/0038038598032004005 | date = 1 November 1998 | ref = harv }}


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}
*{{cite book|last=Blain|first=Virginia|author2=Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy (eds.)|title=The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present|year=1990|publisher=Batsford|location=London|isbn=978-0-7134-5848-0}}
*{{cite book | editor-last1 = Blain | editor-first1 = Virginia | editor-last2 = Clements | editor-first2 = Patricia | editor-last3 = Grundy | editor-first3 = Isobel | title = The feminist companion to literature in English: women writers from the middle ages to the present | year = 1990 | publisher = Batsford | location = London | isbn = 978-0-7134-5848-0 | oclc = 908195284 }}
*{{cite book|last=Tuttle|first=Lisa|title=Encyclopedia of Feminism|year=1986|publisher=Longman|location=Harlow|isbn=978-0-582-89346-7}}
*{{cite book | last = Tuttle | first = Lisa | title = Encyclopedia of feminism | year = 1986 | publisher = Longman | location = London | isbn = 978-0-582-89346-7 | oclc = 966249335 }}


== External links ==
== External links ==
*{{Official website|http://www.annoakley.co.uk/}}
*[http://www.ioe.ac.uk/staff/SSRU/SSRU_36.html Prof. Ann Oakley at Institute of Education]
*[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/centres/social-science-research-unit-ssru The Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education of the University College London]
* {{Official website|http://www.annoakley.co.uk/}}
*[https://archive.today/20121223054834/http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/pioneers/pioneerdetail.asp?id=pioneer_people_oakley Ann Oakley at "Pioneers of Qualitative Research" from the Economic and Social Data Service]
*[https://archive.today/20121223054834/http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/pioneers/pioneerdetail.asp?id=pioneer_people_oakley Ann Oakley at "Pioneers of Qualitative Research" from the Economic and Social Data Service]



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Ann Rosamund Oakley
BornAnn Rosamund Titmuss
(1944-01-17) 17 January 1944 (age 80)
Pen nameRosamund Clay
OccupationProfessor and Founder-Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London
NationalityBritish
Alma materBedford College, University of London, Somerville College, Oxford
GenreFiction (novelist)
and non-fiction sociology and feminism
SubjectSociology and feminism
Notable worksThe Men's Room (adapted for BBC television)
RelativesProfessor Richard Titmuss (father)

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Ann Rosamund Oakley (née Titmuss; born 17 January 1944)[1] is a British sociologist, feminist, and writer. She is professor and founder-director of the Social Science Research Unit at the UCL Institute of Education of the University College London, and in 2005 partially retired from full-time academic work to concentrate on her writing, especially on new novels.

Biography

Oakley is the only daughter of Professor Richard Titmuss and wrote a biography of her parents as well as editing some of his works for recent re-publication. Her mother Kathleen, née Miller, was a social worker.

Ann Oakley was born in London in 1944. She was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls and Somerville College, Oxford University taking her Bachelor of Arts in 1965, having married fellow future academic Robin Oakley the previous year. In the next few years Oakley wrote scripts for children's television, wrote numerous short stories and had two novels rejected by publishers. Returning to formal education at Bedford College, University of London, she gained a PhD in 1969; the qualification was a study of women's attitudes to housework, from which several of her early books were ultimately derived. Much of her sociological research focused on medical sociology and women's health. She has also made important contributions to debates about sociological research methods.

In 1985 Oakley moved to work at the Institute of Education in London where she set up the Social Science Research Unit (SSRU).

Ann Oakley has written numerous academic works, many focusing on the lives and roles of women in society as well as several best-selling novels, of which the best-known is probably The Men's Room, which was adapted by Laura Lamson for BBC television in 1991, and which starred Harriet Walter and Bill Nighy. She has also written an early partial autobiography. She divides her life between living in London and in a rural house where she does most of her fiction writing. She is a mother and grandmother.

Publications

Non-fiction

The grave of Ann Oakley's parents, Richard and Kay Titmuss, in Highgate Cemetery.
  • Oakley, Ann (editor); Ashton, John (editor); Titmuss, Richard (author) (1997) [1972]. The gift relationship: from human blood to social policy. London: LSE Books. ISBN 9780753012017. OCLC 59584491. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  • Oakley, Ann (1993) [1972]. Sex, gender and society. Aldershot: Arena, published in association with New Society. ISBN 9781857421712. OCLC 919620585.
  • Oakley, Ann (1990) [1974]. Housewife (2nd ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 9780140135237. OCLC 495472105.
  • Oakley, Ann (1985) [1974]. The Sociology of Housework. Oxford (England) / New York: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 9780631139249. OCLC 924848490. (also translated into German, Dutch and Japanese).
  • Oakley, Ann (1976). Woman's work: the housewife, past and present. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780394719603. OCLC 780658245. (Re-titled version of Housewife – 1974)
  • Oakley, Ann; Mitchell, Juliet (1976). The rights and wrongs of women. Harmondsworth (England) / New York: Penguin. ISBN 9780140216165. OCLC 471591152.
  • Oakley, Ann (1980). Becoming a mother. New York: Schocken Books. ISBN 9780805237351. OCLC 757264967.
Reprinted as: Oakley, Ann (1981). From here to maternity: becoming a mother. Harmondsworth (England): Penguin. ISBN 9780140222562. OCLC 1050037773.

Fiction

Journal articles

References

  1. ^ "Oakley, Ann". Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 November 2014. (Ann Rosamund Oakley, born 17 Jan. 1944, is the real name of Rosamund Clay)