The Captive Wife

Author:   Hannah Gavron ,  Ann Oakley (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032641850


Pages:   178
Publication Date:   01 May 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Hannah Gavron ,  Ann Oakley (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781032641850


ISBN 10:   1032641851
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   01 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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“...a model of what a well-informed, humane and intelligent sociologist can do. It is luminous, informative, true: one of the tiny number of good books about marriage and the family, written with compassion but without jealousy or wrath.” - The New Society “...conveys a sense of passionate interest in the people written about and concern about society.” - Daily Mail “...a model of what a well-informed, humane and intelligent sociologist can do. It is luminous, informative, true: one of the tiny number of good books about marriage and the family, written with compassion but without jealousy or wrath.” - The New Society “...conveys a sense of passionate interest in the people written about and concern about society.” - Daily Mail


'...a model of what a well-informed, humane and intelligent sociologist can do. It is luminous, informative, true: one of the tiny number of good books about marriage and the family, written with compassion but without jealousy or wrath.' — The New Society '...conveys a sense of passionate interest in the people written about and concern about society.' — Daily Mail '...a model of what a well-informed, humane and intelligent sociologist can do. It is luminous, informative, true: one of the tiny number of good books about marriage and the family, written with compassion but without jealousy or wrath.' — The New Society '...conveys a sense of passionate interest in the people written about and concern about society.' — Daily Mail


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Hannah Gavron was a brilliant, promising British sociologist who died at the age of twenty-nine. Her only book, The Captive Wife, was published the year after her death in 1965. Her son Jeremy Gavron's A Woman on the Edge of Time is an acclaimed account of his mother's life and suicide and was the subject of a BBC radio drama.

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