This study of over 800 16-year-olds takes as its focus family life. It addresses such questions as: what is it like to be a teenager today?; how do parents and teenagers experience their roles and responsibilities?; and how does the promotion of health figure in their perspectives and priorities?

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book brings together edited extracts from classic texts by the internationally renowned feminist sociologist, Ann Oakley. Edited and selected by the author herself, it starts with work first published in the early 1970s. Ann Oakley's research and writing on sex and gender, housework, motherhood, women's health, and social science, have enormously influenced the thinking of many inside and beyond social science, and have helped to shape the academic study of women and gender right up to the present day. Many of Oakley's early works are out of print and this collection makes them available...

Mixes personal experience with 'facts' derived from other literatures, including the history of medicine, neurology, the sociology of health and illness, philosophy, and legal discourses on the right to life and people as victims of a greedy litigation system. This book's genre spans fiction/non-fiction, autobiography and social theory.

What are the differences between the sexes? That is the question that Ann Oakley set out to answer in this pioneering study, now established as a classic in the field. To answer it she draws on the evidence of biology, anthropology, sociology and the study of animal behaviour to cut through popular myths and reach the underlying truth. She demonstrates conclusively that men and women are not two separate groups: rather each individual takes his or her place on a continuous scale. She shows how different societies define masculinity and femininity in different and even opposite ways, and...

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.