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A Critical Woman [[electronic resource] ] : Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century



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Autore: Oakley Ann Visualizza persona
Titolo: A Critical Woman [[electronic resource] ] : Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (465 p.)
Disciplina: 330
Soggetto topico: Crime
Economics
Social policy
Welfare state
Wootton, Barbara, 1897-
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; 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; Plates; 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Altri titoli varianti: A Critical Woman : Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
Critical Woman, A
Critical Woman
A critical woman
Titolo autorizzato: Critical Woman  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-14906-0
9786613149060
1-84966-469-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910597897303321
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