Ann OakleyExperiments in Knowing
Gender and Method in the Social Sciences
Ann Oakley is a professor of sociology at the University of London. Her previous books include Gender on Planet Earth and Experiments in Knowing (both published by The New Press), The Men's Room, The Captured Womb, Subject Women, Becoming a Mother, Woman's Work, The Sociology of Housework , and Sex, Gender and Society.
Part I: Modern Problems.
1. Who Knows?.
2. Paradigm Wars.
3. Hearing the Grass Grow.
Part II: A Brief History of Methodology.
4. Cartesian Nightmares.
5. Mean Values.
6. Imagining Social Science.
7. Chance is a Fine Thing.
Part III: Experiments and Their Enemies.
8. Experimental Sociology: The Early Years.
9. Of NITS and LIFE and Other Things.
10. Lessons from America.
11. The Rights of Animals and Other Creatures.
Part IV: Moving On.
12. People's Ways of Knowing.
13. Challenges of an Experimenting Society.
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