A critical woman : Barbara Wootton, social science and public policy in the twentieth century /
Oakley, Ann.
London : Bloomsbury Academic,
2011.
This is a fascinating biography of Barbara Wootton, one of the extraordinary public figures of the 20th century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the woolsack in the House of Lords.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [414]-415) and index.
This is a fascinating biography of Barbara Wootton, one of the extraordinary public figures of the 20th century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the woolsack in the House of Lords.
Wootton, Barbara, 1897-1988.
Women social scientists
Social scientists
Women intellectuals
Intellectuals