A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth 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.

Ann Oakley has written a fascinating and highly readable account of the life and wor...