A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
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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 wisdom and the first woman to sit as Speaker in the House of Lords in Parliament.
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.Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1849664684
ISBN13:9781849664684
Release Date:August 2011
Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.1" x 9.5"
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