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
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- A Critical Woman
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword by Tessa Blackstone
- Acknowledgements
- Barbara Wootton’s Family Tree (Abridged)
- 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
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index