A critical woman : Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy in the twentieth century
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A critical woman : Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy in the twentieth century
Bloomsbury Academic, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [414]-415) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Writing a Life of Barbara Wootton
1. Ladies of the House
2. A Cat Called Plato
3. Alma Mater
4. Jack
5. Cambridge Distinctions
6. Real Work
7. Fact and Fiction
8. George
9. Planning for Peace
10. Lament for Economics
11. Testament for Social Science
12. The Nuffield Years, and Vera
13. High Barn, and the Other Barbara
14. Crime and Penal Policy
15. Madam Speaker
16. Incurable Patient
17. In the World She Never Made
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