Hannah Gavron (Hebrew: חנה גברון; born Ann Fyvel; 19 August 1936 – 14 December 1965) was a Mandatory Palestine-born British sociologist.
[6] On 14 December 1965, she locked herself in the kitchen of her neighbour's house in Jackson's Lane, Highgate, switched on its gas oven and committed suicide.
[1][7] It was a qualitative sociological analysis of narrative accounts of working- and middle-class married women's lives, and has been called one of the "classic examples of feminist interpretation of housework".
[7] In the view of Helen McCarthy, this study meant that Fyvel (Gavron) was one of a number of researchers in the 1950s and early 1960s (such as Nancy Seear, Viola Klein, Ferdynand Zweig, Judith Hubback and Pearl Jephcott) who "helped to entrench new understandings of married women's employment as a fundamental feature of advanced industrial societies, and one that solved the dilemmas of 'modern' woman across social classes.
"[9] In 1990, Ann Oakley wrote that Gavron was an "optimistic pioneer of modern feminism" who "stood as a role model for many of us, trying to make our way in the male-dominated world of social science.