The Ann Oakley reader: Gender, women and social science

Abstract

General introduction Part 1: Sex and gender: Introduction Extracts from Sex, Gender and Society introduction the biology of sex sex and gender the learning of gender roles the future of sex differences Extracts from Subject Women genes and gender a kind of person childhood lessons Part 2: Housework and family life: Introduction Extracts from The Sociology of Housework introduction images of housework work conditions standards and routines marriage and the division of labour Extract from Subject Women domestic work Extract from Housewife women and industrialization and two of the interviews in chapter 6 Extract from Becoming a Mother domestic politics Part 3: Childbirth and motherhood: Introduction Extracts from Becoming a Mother introduction the agony and the ecstasy learning the language of the child lessons learnt Extracts from Women Confined medical maternity cases reproduction and change losses and gains mistakes and mystiques Extracts from What is Feminism edited version of feminism, motherhood and medicine - who cares? Part 4: Doing social science: Introduction Extract from The Sociology of Housework the invisible woman: sexism in sociology Extract from Women Confined the sociological unimagination Extracts from Housewife myths of woman's place: the division of labour by sex myths of woman's place: motherhood Extract from Becoming a Mother: endnote Extract from Doing Feminist Research ~ Helen Roberts edited version of interviewing women: a contradiction in terms Extract from Women's Health Counts ~ Helen Roberts edited version of some problems with the scientific method and good research practice.