Olive Banks
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Olive Banks was an English professor at Leicester University who worked upon the sociology of education and the history of feminism. Early life Banks was born in Enfield Highway, Middlesex, the only child of Herbert Alfred Davies and Jessie Louise Tebby. She married Joseph Ambrose Banks in June 1944 and they both entered the London School of Economics to study sociology. Her PhD thesis was turned into her first book, Parity and Prestige in English Secondary Education: a Study in Educational Sociology .
Olive Banks's Published Works
Published Works
- The Making of the Modern Family (1977) (505)
- Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood (1989) (239)
- The sociology of education (1969) (200)
- Faces of Feminism: A Study of Feminism As a Social Movement (1981) (141)
- Parity and Prestige in English Secondary Education (1955) (92)
- Feminism and family planning in Victorian England (1964) (79)
- Women's Magazines 1693-1968 (1971) (69)
- Becoming a Feminist: The Social Origins of 'First Wave' Feminism (1986) (62)
- Wives and Mothers in Victorian Industry (1975) (49)
- Society and the Education of Teachers (1970) (29)
- Success and Failure in the Secondary School (1974) (26)
- The 'new' sociology of education. (1974) (24)
- Parity and Prestige in English Secondary Education: A Study in Educational Sociology (1998) (23)
- The sociology of education, 1952–1982 (1982) (16)
- The Bradlaugh-Besant trial and the english newspapers (1954) (16)
- Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Post-War Britain: 1945-68 (1982) (16)
- The biographical dictionary of British feminists (1985) (15)
- Some reflections on gender, sociology and women's history. (1999) (12)
- Book Review: The New Education. The English Background 1870–1914 (1970) (12)
- Success and failure in the secondary school : an interdisciplinary approach to school achievement (1973) (9)
- The Attitudes of Steelworkers to Technical Change (1960) (8)
- Women and Education (1980) (5)
- Indirect measurement of results in a project for improving socialization among the elderly. (1970) (5)
- Morant and the secondary school regulations of 1904 (1954) (4)
- The Politics of British Feminism, 1918-1970 (1993) (4)
- Sociology of education in the United Kingdom (1972) (2)
- The Legacy of Bernstein (1995) (2)
- Women's Two Roles@@@Women's Two Roles: Home and Work (1957) (2)
- The sociology of education : a bibliography (1978) (2)
- Employment of Sociology and Anthropology Graduates, 1952 and 1954 (1956) (2)
- The gender of history: men, women and historical practices (2002) (1)
- Social mobility and the english system of education (1958) (1)
- The Sixth Form and College Entrance (1970) (1)
- Reviews : Simon Pugh, Garden - Nature - Language, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988, £25.00, paper £5.95, 148 pp (1989) (0)
- Book Review:A History of the Malthusian League, 1877-1927 Rosanna Leadbetter (1978) (0)
- The consequences of reform. (1964) (0)
- Review: The Readers' Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Discourse (1993) (0)
- Reports of Group Discussions (1957) (0)
- Introduction (to feminism and family planning in Victorian England). (1964) (0)
- The spread of gentility. (1964) (0)
- The attitude to sex. (1964) (0)
- The rights of woman discussion. (1964) (0)
- Book Reviews (1989) (0)
- ‘The Teaching of Social Psychology to Students of Education and Social Work’ (1956) (0)
- Emancipation and family size. (1964) (0)
- Feminist ferment: ‘the woman question’ in the USA and britain, 1870-1940 (1997) (0)
- Book reviews (2002) (0)
- The Sociology of Education, (revised edition). (1978) (0)
- Fertility and the femine protest. (1964) (0)
- Conclusion (about possible relationship between feminism and family planning). (1964) (0)
- The scope of reform. (1964) (0)
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