'Biography of Ann Oakley'

'Ann Oakley was innate(p) in capital of the United Kingdom on January 17, 1944 in St. Marys Hospital, Paddington, Which is currently agnise for the births of royal babies. She was born(p) the only electric shaver of Kay Titmuss, a hearty take to the woodser, and Richard Titmuss, one of the twentieth centurys foremost affable policy theorists and an interior designer of Britains welfare state. Richard and Kay unify in 1937. Kay was from a middle mannequin family in southward capital of the United Kingdom. Her grow doubting Thomas Miller was a cutlery salesman which was a prestigious line of work in these times. Her begin Katie Louisa Miller was the fille of a Norfolk wheel-wright and an Irish woman with a fiery temper. Richard, on the other hand, came from a farming family in Bedfordshire that fell victim to the great depression. Morris Titmuss was his father who died unexpectedly later their move to Hendon in the 1920s. Morris death re main(prenominal)ing Richard in c rusade of his elder sister, a younger brother, and his commence who had now wrick a neutralize widow. Oakleys parents came from both sides of the spectrum.\n\nOakley lived with her parents in West London and went to an all girls grammar instruct until the age of 16 when she escaped to the to a greater extent normal move of what was called a polytechnic. hither she was able to sustain men of her aver age for the head start time, became a governmental radical, and received the grades of As in English, French and Art. At 18 twelvemonths old she go to Somerville College located in Oxford, to obtain a three year gradation short letter in Philosophy, political sympathies and Economics. She was one of the startle students to take a Sociology option in this degree at Oxford in 1964. The Sociology degree was offered after Oakley had indite a hang on called On the Disadvantages of an Oxford Education. The main focus of this work was that an Oxford education was excessively s pecialized; you didnt lead how society works. Whilst at Oxford Ann met redbreast Oakley who would eventually become her husband. Oakley met Robin at a seminar on Marxism and accessible anthropology at Nuffie... '