Ann Oakley is a Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of London and Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the University of London's Institute of Education. She has been writing and researching in the area for over 30 years. Her previous books include Experiments in Knowing, Man and Wife, The Men's Room, The Captured Womb, Subject Women, Becoming a Mother, Housewife, The Sociology of Housework, and Sex, Gender and Society.

"This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays, written with commitment." Ken Worpole, Times Higher Education Supplement"On many levels this is a timely and convincing gazetteer of contemporary human and political folly, and Oakley freqently turns a very neat phrase, as when she notes that "cars dominate public space in much the same way that men dominate public life"....This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays". Ken Worpole, Books

• Acknowledgements viii1 The Self and Other Dramas 12 On the Problem of Women and Bicycles 133 Manslaughter 284 Sick to Death of Women 495 Angeles in the House 826 Family Values 1027 The Rape of Mother Earth 1238 Delusional Systems 1549 World-traveling 19410 Civic Rituals and Real Futures 5Notes 230Index 283

Ann Oakley is a Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of London and Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the University of London's Institute of Education. She has been writing and researching in the area for over 30 years. Her previous books include Experiments in Knowing, Man and Wife, The Men's Room, The Captured Womb, Subject Women, Becoming a Mother, Housewife, The Sociology of Housework, and Sex, Gender and Society.

"This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays, written with commitment." Ken Worpole, Times Higher Education Supplement"On many levels this is a timely and convincing gazetteer of contemporary human and political folly, and Oakley freqently turns a very neat phrase, as when she notes that "cars dominate public space in much the same way that men dominate public life"....This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays". Ken Worpole, Books

• Acknowledgements viii1 The Self and Other Dramas 12 On the Problem of Women and Bicycles 133 Manslaughter 284 Sick to Death of Women 495 Angeles in the House 826 Family Values 1027 The Rape of Mother Earth 1238 Delusional Systems 1549 World-traveling 19410 Civic Rituals and Real Futures 5Notes 230Index 283

Ann Oakley is a Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of London and Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the University of London's Institute of Education. She has been writing and researching in the area for over 30 years. Her previous books include Experiments in Knowing, Man and Wife, The Men's Room, The Captured Womb, Subject Women, Becoming a Mother, Housewife, The Sociology of Housework, and Sex, Gender and Society.

"This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays, written with commitment." Ken Worpole, Times Higher Education Supplement"On many levels this is a timely and convincing gazetteer of contemporary human and political folly, and Oakley freqently turns a very neat phrase, as when she notes that "cars dominate public space in much the same way that men dominate public life"....This is an intriguing and challenging collection of disparate essays". Ken Worpole, Books

• Acknowledgements viii1 The Self and Other Dramas 12 On the Problem of Women and Bicycles 133 Manslaughter 284 Sick to Death of Women 495 Angeles in the House 826 Family Values 1027 The Rape of Mother Earth 1238 Delusional Systems 1549 World-traveling 19410 Civic Rituals and Real Futures 5Notes 230Index 283