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Ann Oakley

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.


— Ann Oakley


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Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.


— Ann Oakley


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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.


— Ann Oakley


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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.


— Ann Oakley


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There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.


— Ann Oakley


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About Ann Oakley






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(1974) Housewife. London: Jonathan Cape. London: HarperCollins.

She has also made important contributions to debates about sociological research methods. She was educated at Somerville College Oxford University taking her BA in 1965 having married fellow future academic Robin Oakley the previous year. She has also written an early partial autobiography.

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