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A critical woman : Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy in the twentieth century / Ann Oakley.
Lippincott Library H59.W58 O25 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oakley, Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wootton, Barbara, 1897-1988.
- Wootton, Barbara.
- Women social scientists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women social scientists.
- Social scientists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Social scientists.
- Women intellectuals--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women intellectuals.
- Social policy.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Intellectuals--Great Britain--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Great Britain--Social policy--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy in the twentieth century
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2011.
- Summary:
- This is a fascinating biography of Barbara Wootton, one of the extraordinary public figures of the 20th 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [414]-415) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781849664684
- 1849664684
- 9781849664691
- 1849664692
- OCLC:
- 755643631
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613149060
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