A Critical Woman Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing
2011.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745052006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
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