Megan Doolittle

Dr. Megan Doolittle is a lecturer in Social Policy at The Open University. Her research interests include the history of the family, fatherhood and masculinity, contemporary families and their alternatives, and relationships between law, social policy, and the family. Her publications include ‘Sexuality, Parenthood and Population: Explaining Fertility Decline in Britain 1860s to 1920s, in J. Carabine (ed.) Sexuality, (forthcoming in 2004); The Family Story: Blood, Contract and Intimacy in Modern England, 1840–1960, with Leonore Davidoff, Janet Fink and Katherine Holden (1999); 'Close relations? Bringing together gender and family in English history', Gender & History, (1999).