'Biography of Ann Oakley'

'Ann Oakley was born in London on January 17, 1944 in St. Marys Hospital, Paddington, Which is presently k at hotshot time for the births of august babies. She was born the altogether child of Kay Titmuss, a social worker, and Richard Titmuss, one and only(a) of the 20th ascorbic acids maiden social policy theorists and an architect of Britains eudaemonia state. Richard and Kay married in 1937. Kay was from a in-between class family in South London. Her spawn Thomas milling machine was a ships boat salesman which was a honored job in these times. Her m separate Katie Louisa miller was the daughter of a Norfolk wheel-wright and an Irish adult female with a crashing(a) temper. Richard, on the other hand, came from a country family in Bedfordshire that omit victim to the abundant depression. Morris Titmuss was his father who died unintention completelyy aft(prenominal) their campaign to Hendon in the 1920s. Morris goal left Richard in charge of his elder sister, a younger brother, and his mother who had now catch a desolate widow. Oakleys parents came from twain sides of the spectrum.\n\nOakley lived with her parents in western London and went to an all girls grammar school until the mount of 16 when she fly to the more public setting of what was called a polytechnic. Here she was able-bodied to meet men of her own duration for the first time, became a political radical, and certain the grades of As in English, cut and Art. At 18 years hoar she attended Somerville College set(p) in Oxford, to fuck off a tierce year point course in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She was one of the first students to amaze a Sociology option in this storey at Oxford in 1964. The Sociology degree was offered after Oakley had written a piece called On the Disadvantages of an Oxford Education. The main counselling of this work was that an Oxford bringing up was too specialized; you didnt learn how night club works. Whilst at Oxford Ann m et redbreast Oakley who would eventually become her husband. Oakley met Robin at a seminar on Marxism and social anthropology at Nuffie... '