Appendix 1: Ann Oakley's Publications

This appendix lists Oakley's main publications, both authored and co-authored, in chronological order. The reference numbers O1–O81 are those used in appendix 2 to show the relationship to this book. A full list of her publications is available as part of her CV on her website http://www.annoakley.co.uk/index.html along with other material about her.

• 1970

  • O1 The myth of motherhood. New Society, 26 February, 348–350.

• 1972

  • O2 Sex, Gender and Society. London: Temple Smith. (new editions 1985, 2015.)

• 1974

  • O3 Housewife. London: Allen Lane.

  • O4 The Sociology of Housework. London: Martin Robertson. (new editions 1985, 2019.)

• 1976

  • O5 Mitchell J, Oakley A (eds) The Rights and Wrongs of Women. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

• 1979

  • O6 Becoming a Mother. Oxford: Martin Robertson. (republished as From Here to Maternity 1981, 1986, 2019.)

  • O7 Oakley A, Oakley R ‘Sexism in official statistics’ in Irvine J, Miles I, Evans J (eds) Demystifying Social Statistics. London: Pluto Press, pp. 172–189.

• 1980

  • O8 Women Confined: Towards a Sociology of Childbirth. Oxford: Martin Robertson. (new edition 1986.)

• 1981

  • O9 Subject Women. Oxford: Martin Robertson.

  • O10 Graham H, Oakley A ‘Competing ideologies of reproduction: medical and maternal perspectives on pregnancy and birth’ in Roberts H (ed.) Women, Health and Reproduction. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 50–74.

  • O11 ‘Interviewing women: a contradiction in terms?’ in Roberts H (ed.) Doing Feminist Research. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 30–61.

• 1982

  • O12 Oakley A, Chalmers I, Macfarlane JA ‘Social class, stress and reproduction’ in Rees A R, Purcell H (eds) Disease and the Environment. Chichester: John Wiley, pp. 11–50.

  • O13 ‘Normal motherhood: an exercise in self-control?’ in Hutter B, Williams G (eds) Controlling Women. London: Croom Helm, pp. 79–107.

  • O14 ‘Conventional families’ in Rapoport R N, Rapoport R, Fogarty M P (eds) Families in Britain. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 123–137.

• 1983

  • O15 ‘Women and health policy’ in Lewis J (ed.) Women's Welfare, Women's Rights. London: Croom Helm, pp. 103–129.

  • O16 ‘Millicent Garrett Fawcett’ in Spender D (ed.) Feminist Theorists. London: The Women's Press, pp. 184–202.

• 1984

  • O17 Oakley A, McPherson A, Roberts H Miscarriage. London: Fontana. (new edition 1990.)

  • O18 The Captured Womb: A History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

  • O19 Taking it Like a Woman. London: Jonathan Cape.

• 1986

  • O20 Mitchell J, Oakley A (eds) What is Feminism? Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

  • O21 Telling the Truth About Jerusalem: A Collection of Essays and Poems. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

• 1988

  • O22 The Men's Room. London: Virago.

• 1989

  • O23 ‘Simone de Beauvoir’ in Forster P, Sutton I (eds) Daughters of de Beauvoir. London: The Women's Press, pp. 67–76.

  • O24 ‘Women's studies in British sociology: to end at our beginning?’ British Journal of Sociology 40 (3), pp. 442–470.

  • O25 ‘Smoking in pregnancy: smokescreen or risk factor? Towards a materialist analysis’ Sociology of Health and Illness 11 (4), pp. 311–335.

  • O26 ‘Who's afraid of the randomized controlled trial? Some dilemmas of the scientific method and “good” research practice’ Women and Health 15 (2), pp. 25–59.

• 1990

  • O27 Oakley A, Houd S Helpers in Childbirth: Midwifery Today. Washington, DC: Hemisphere Books, on behalf of the World Health Organization.

  • O28 Oakley A, Rajan L ‘Social class and social support: the same or different?’ Sociology 25 (1), pp. 31–59.

  • O29 Oakley A, Rajan L, Grant A ‘Social support and pregnancy outcome’ British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 97, pp. 155–162.

  • O30 (under the name Rosamund Clay) Only Angels Forget. London: Virago.

• 1991

  • O31 ‘Eugenics, social medicine and the career of Richard Titmuss in Britain 1935-50’ British Journal of Sociology 42 (2), pp. 165–194.

  • O32 Elbourne D, Oakley A ‘An overview of trials of social support during pregnancy: effects on gestational age at delivery and birthweight’ in Berendes H W, Kessel W, Yaffe S (eds) Prevention of Low Birthweight. Washington DC: National Centre for Education in Maternal and Child Health, pp. 205–223.

  • O33 Matilda's Mistake. London: Virago.

• 1992

  • O34 Social Support and Motherhood: The Natural History of a Research Project. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (new edition 2019).

  • O35 The Secret Lives of Eleanor Jenkinson. London: HarperCollins.

• 1993

  • O36 Essays on Women, Medicine and Health. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

  • O37 Scenes Originating in the Garden of Eden. London: HarperCollins.

• 1994

  • O38 Brannen J, Dodd K, Oakley A, Storey P Young People, Health and Family Life. Buckingham: Open University Press.

  • O39 Oakley A, Williams AS (eds) The Politics of the Welfare State. London: UCL Press.

• 1995

  • O40 Fullerton D, Holland J, Oakley A ‘Towards effective intervention: evaluating HIV prevention and sexual health education’ in Aggleton P, Davies P, Hart G (eds) AIDS: Safety, Sexuality and Risk. London: Taylor and Francis, pp. 90–108.

• 1996

  • O41 Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss, My Parents' Early Years. London: HarperCollins.

  • O42 A Proper Holiday. London: HarperCollins.

• 1997

  • O43 Oakley A, Mitchell J (eds) Who's Afraid of Feminism? London: Hamish Hamilton.

  • O44 Oakley A, Ashton J (eds) The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy. By Richard M Titmuss. London: LSE Books.

• 1998

  • O45 Williams F, Popay J, Oakley A (eds) Welfare Research: A Critical Review. London: UCL Press.

  • O46 Oakley A, Rigby A S ‘Are men good for the welfare of women and children?’ in Popay J, Hearn J, Edwards J (eds) Men, Gender Divisions and Welfare. London: Routledge, pp. 101–127.

  • O47 ‘Science, gender and women's liberation: an argument against postmodernism’ Women's Studies International Forum 21 (2), pp. 133–146.

  • O48 ‘Gender, methodology and people's ways of knowing: some problems with feminism and the paradigm debate in social science’ Sociology 32 (4), pp. 707–731.

• 1999

  • O49 Overheads. London: HarperCollins.

• 2000

  • O50 Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Polity Press.

  • O51 ‘Paradigm wars: some thoughts on a personal and public trajectory’ International Journal of Social Research Methodology 2 (3), pp. 247–254.

• 2001

  • O52 Alcock P, Glennerster H, Oakley A, Sinfield A (eds) Welfare and Wellbeing: Richard Titmuss's Contribution to Social Policy. Bristol: Policy Press.

  • O53 ‘Evaluating health promotion: methodological diversity’ in Oliver S, Peersman G (eds) Using Research for Effective Health Promotion. Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 16–31.

  • 054 Peersman G, Oliver S, Oakley A ‘Systematic reviews of effectiveness’ in Oliver S, Peersman G (eds) Using Research for Effective Health Promotion. Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 96–108.

  • O55 Oliver S, Peersman G, Oakley A, Nicholas A ‘Using research: challenges in evidence informed service planning’ in Oliver S, Peersman G (eds) Using Research for Effective Health Promotion. Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 96–108.

  • O56 Strange V, Forrest S, Oakley A ‘A listening trial: ‘qualitative’ methods within experimental research’ in Oliver S, Peersman G (eds) Using Research for Effective Health Promotion. Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 138–153.

• 2002

  • O57 Gender on Planet Earth. Cambridge: Polity Press.

  • O58 ‘Social science and evidence-based everything: the case of education’ Educational Review 54 (3), pp. 277–286.

• 2003

  • O59 Oakley A, Strange V, Toroyan T, Wiggins M, Roberts I, Stephenson J ‘Using random allocation to evaluate social interventions: three recent UK examples’ Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 589 (1), pp. 170–189.

• 2004

  • O60 Oakley A, Barker J (eds) Private Complaints and Public Health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service. Bristol: Policy Press.

  • O61 ‘Epilogue in Eight Essays: Ann Oakley’ in Halsey A H (ed.) A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 214–217.

• 2005

  • O62 The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women and Social Science. Bristol: Policy Press.

  • O63 Oliver S, Harden A, Rees R, Shepherd J, Brunton G, Garcia J, Oakley A ‘An emerging framework for including different types of evidence in systematic reviews for public policy’ Evaluation 11 (4), pp. 428–446.

  • O64 Oakley A, Gough D, Oliver S, Thomas J ‘The politics of evidence and methodology: lessons from the EPPI-Centre’ Evidence and Policy 1 (1), pp. 5–31.

• 2006

  • O65 Oakley A, Strange V, Bonell C, Allen E, Stephenson J ‘Process evaluation in randomised controlled trials of complex interventions’ British Medical Journal 332, pp. 413–416.

• 2007

  • O66 Fracture: Adventures of a Broken Body. Bristol: Policy Press.

• 2010

  • O67 ‘The social science of biographical life-writing: some methodological and ethical issues’ International Journal of Social Research Methodology 13(5), pp. 425–439.

• 2011

  • O68 A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

  • O69 Oakley A, Wiggins M, Strange V, Sawtell M, Austerberry H ‘Becoming a mother: continuities and discontinuities over three decades’ in Ebtehaj F, Herring J, Johnson MH, Richards M (eds) Birth Rights and Rites. Oxford, Hart Publishing, pp. 9–27.

• 2012

  • O70 ‘The strange case of the two Wootton Reports: what can we learn about the evidence policy relationship?’ Evidence & Policy 8(3), pp. 267–283.

• 2014

  • O71 Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science. Bristol: Policy Press.

• 2015

  • O72 ‘Imagining social science’ in Twamley K, Doidge M, Scott A (eds) Sociologists' Tales: Contemporary Narratives on Sociological Thought and Practice. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 109–116.

  • O73 ‘The history of gendered social science: a personal narrative and some reflections on method’ Women's History Review 24 (2), pp. 154–173.

• 2016

  • O74 ‘Interviewing women again: power, time and the gift’ Sociology 50 (1), pp. 195–213.

  • O75 ‘The sociology of childbirth: an autobiographical journey through four decades of research’ Sociology of Health and Illness 38 (5), pp. 689–705.

• 2018

  • O76 Women, Peace and Welfare: A Suppressed History of Social Reform, 1880–1920. Bristol: Policy Press.

• 2019

  • O77 ‘Legacies of altruism: Richard Titmuss, Marie Meinhardt, and health policy research in the 1940s’ Social Policy & Society 18(3), pp. 383–392.

• 2020

  • O78 ‘Women, the early development of sociological research methods in Britain and the London School of Economics: A (partially) retrieved history’ Sociology 54 (2), pp. 292–331.

• 2021

  • O79 Forgotten Wives: How Women Get Written Out of History. Bristol: Policy Press.

• 2022

  • O80 The Strange Lockdown Life of Alice Henry. London: Linen Press.

• 2024

  • O81 The Science of Housework. Bristol: Policy Press.