The Emerald Guide to Ann Oakley is a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Oakley's sociological ideas, placing them in the context of her life and her…

Ann Oakley analysed the perceptions of 40 urban housewives around housework, their feelings of monotony and fragmentation, the length of their working week, the importance of standards and routines, and…

This work explores the history, ideology and implications of methodology in the social and natural sciences. It addresses themes of common interest across a number of different fields, including social…

Forgotten Wives examines how marriage has contributed to the active ‘disremembering’ of women’s achievements. Ann Oakley uses case studies of four women married to well-known men to ask questions about…

Ann Oakley develops a sociology of the research process, telling how a research project on caring and social support.is undertaken. It has much resonance for social science researchers and others…

Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century’s foremost social policy theorists. This volume, like its predecessor, Welfare and wellbeing (The Policy Press, 2001), makes available once again the work…

Thomas Middleton’s intense study of betrayal, corruption, lust and violence, Women Beware Women , is one of the revenge tragedies most commonly studied and performed. This guide offers an introduction…