In Pursuit of Equity Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

Name: In Pursuit of Equity Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
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ISBN: 9780195158021

ISBN-10: 0195158024

ISBN-13: 9780195158021

Edition: 2003

Authors: Alice Kessler-Harris

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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-Harris shows how ideas about what was fair for…

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List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Responsibilities of Life


The Mere Fact of Sex


A Practical Independence


A Man-Run Company


Marriage: A Defining Condition



Maintaining Self-Respect


Self-Help Is the Best Help


Have We Lost Courage?


A Sieve with Holes


A Foundling Dumped upon the Doorstep



Questions of Equity


Matters of Right


The Hardest Problem of the Whole Thing


They Feel That They Have Lost Citizenship


It Would Be a Great Comfort to Him



A Principle of Law but Not of Justice


Apportioning the Income Tax


More Than Money Is Involved


To Confer a Special Benefit on the Marital Relationship



What Discriminates?


How're You Going to Feel?


The President's Commission on the Status of Women


Calling into Question the Entire Doctrine of Sex


Equal Pay for Equal Work



What's Fair?


Constructing an Equal Opportunity Framework


Standing with Lot's Wife


Divided Women


At First Glance, the Idea May Seem Silly


History Is Moving in This Direction


Epilogue


Notes


Index