In Pursuit of Equity
Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States' most significant social policies. Tracing changing ideals of fairness from the 1920s to the 1970s, she shows how a deeply embedded set of beliefs, or gendered imagination shaped seemingly neutral social legislation to limit the freedom and equality of women. Law and custom generally sought to protect women from exploitation, and sometimes from employment itself; but at the same time, they assigned the most important benefits to wage work. Most policy makers (even female ones) assumed from the beginning that women would not be breadwinners. Kessler-H…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-802089-9
- EAN: 9780198020899
- Produktnummer: 13938950
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 25'883 KB
- Abbildungen: 23 halftones
Über den Autor
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, where she also teaches in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. A leading advocate of women's rights in the United States, she has been a featured speaker at a special White House symposium and an expert guest on the PBS documentary The Measured Century. She is the author of Out to Work, A Woman's Wage, and Women Have Always Worked.
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