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

by Ann Oakley

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 wisdom and the first woman to sit as Speaker in the House of Lords in Parliament.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849664684
• ISBN13: 9781849664684
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.5"