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 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...

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