Taking It Like a Woman

Ann Oakley is one of the foremost feminist writers today. In her autobiography she describes the events which made her a feminist and the kind of mother, wife, academic and writer she is.

‘This book is about my life, but it is also about others,’ she writes, and in this honest, sometimes painful, and absorbing account of her life so far in the second half of the twentieth century, every woman will find some reflection of her own personality and feelings.

Ann Oakley’s life has encompassed great achievements, and powerful crises – including a breakdown and serious illness. Interwoven with the account of her own life is the description of a haunting love affair which raises many unsolved problems faced by women today. Ann Oakley’s life has never embraced easy answers, and her book, written with clarity and inner perception, encourages us to understand that living with contradictions is not such a bad way of life after all.