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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Ann Oakley

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.

Ann Oakley

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

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Sex differences may be natural, but gender differences have their source in culture.

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Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

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If love... means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Ann Oakley

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Ann Oakley

Ann Oakley

Ann Oakley

Born: January 17, 1944 (age 82)

Bio: Ann Rosamund Oakley is a distinguished British sociologist, feminist, and writer.

Known for:

Sex, Gender and Society (1972)
The sociology of housework (1974)
Experiments in Knowing (2000)
Gender on Planet Earth (2002)
The Ann Oakley Reader (2005)

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