Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Sources of extracts iv
4. Foreword by Germaine Greer vi
5. Preface ix
6. Sex and gender
7. Introduction 2
8. The difference between sex and gender 7
9. Genes and gender 13
10. A kind of person 21
11. Childhood lessons 31
12. Science, gender and women’s liberation 41
13. Housework and family life
14. Introduction 54
15. On studying housework 59
16. Images of housework 63
17. Work conditions 75
18. Standards and routines 87
19. Marriage and the division of labour 93
20. Helping with baby 103
21. Housework in history and culture 109
22. Childbirth, motherhood and medicine
23. Introduction 118
24. The agony and the ecstasy 123
25. Lessons mothers learn 139
26. Medical maternity cases 151
27. Mistakes and mystiques of motherhood 179
28. Doing social science
29. Introduction 184
30. The invisible woman: sexism in sociology 189
31. Reflections thirty years on 207
32. On being interviewed 211
33. Interviewing women: a contradiction in terms? 217
34. Who’s afraid of the randomized controlled trial? Some dilemmas of the scientific method and ‘good’ research practice 233
35. Paradigm wars: some thoughts on a personal and public trajectory 245
36. General bibliography 251
37. Bibliography of work by Ann Oakley 281
38. Ann Oakley: further reading 285
39. Index 295