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

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

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In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
Written by author Alice Kessler-Harris
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, February 2003
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 "gend
Few historians have contributed more to our understanding of the history of women, and women's effect on history, than Alice Kessler-Harris. Author of the classic Out to Work, she is one of the country's leading scholars of gender, the economy, and

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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3
Chapter 1 The Responsibilities of Life 19
The Mere Fact of Sex 22
A Practical Independence 34
A Man-Run Company 45
Marriage: A Defining Condition 56
Chapter 2 Maintaining Self-Respect 64
Self-Help Is the Best Help 66
Have We Lost Courage? 74
A Sieve with Holes 88
A Foundling Dumped upon the Doorstep 101
Chapter 3 Questions of Equity 117
Matters of Right 121
The Hardest Problem of the Whole Thing 130
They Feel That They Have Lost Citizenship 142
It Would Be a Great Comfort to Him 156
Chapter 4 A Principle of Law but Not of Justice 170
Apportioning the Income Tax 172
More Than Money Is Involved 178
To Confer a Special Benefit on the Marital Relationship 193
Chapter 5 What Discriminates? 203
How're You Going to Feel? 206
The President's Commission on the Status of Women 213
Calling into Question the Entire Doctrine of Sex 226
Equal Pay for Equal Work 234
Chapter 6 What's Fair? 239
Constructing an Equal Opportunity Framework 241
Standing with Lot's Wife 246
Divided Women 267
At First Glance, the Idea May Seem Silly 275
History Is Moving in This Direction 280
Epilogue 290
Notes 297
Index 365

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

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Intensive history of the ways that traditional motherhood role of women have impacted women's quest for economic equality.

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	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	3
Chapter 1	The Responsibilities of Life	19
	The Mere Fact of Sex	22
	A Practical Independence	34
	A Man-Run Company	45
	Marriage: A Defining Condition	56
Chapter 2	Maintaining Self-Respect	64
	Self-Help Is the Best Help	66
	Have We Lost Courage?	74
	A Sieve with Holes	88
	A Foundling Dumped upon the Doorstep	101
Chapter 3	Questions of Equity	117
	Matters of Right	121
	The Hardest Problem of the Whole Thing	130
	They Feel That They Have Lost Citizenship	142
	It Would Be a Great Comfort to Him	156
Chapter 4	A Principle of Law but Not of Justice	170
	Apportioning the Income Tax	172
	More Than Money Is Involved	178
	To Confer a Special Benefit on the Marital Relationship	193
Chapter 5	What Discriminates?	203
	How're You Going to Feel?	206
	The President's Commission on the Status of Women	213
	Calling into Question the Entire Doctrine of Sex	226
	Equal Pay for Equal Work	234
Chapter 6	What's Fair?	239
	Constructing an Equal Opportunity Framework	241
	Standing with Lot's Wife	246
	Divided Women	267
	At First Glance, the Idea May Seem Silly	275
	History Is Moving in This Direction	280
	Epilogue	290
	Notes	297
	Index	365