In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century AmericaOxford University Press, 2003 - 374 páginas 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 men as well as women influenced old age and unemployment insurance, fair labor standards, Federal income tax policy, and the new discussion of women's rights that emerged after World War II. Only in the 1960s and 1970s did the gendered imagination begin to alter--yet the process is far from complete. |
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... political office ) , this , too did not appear to most people to be unfair . After all , treating women differently provided them with a valuable protective umbrella to which men could not lay claim . Or so it seemed . And yet when the ...
... political office ) , this , too did not appear to most people to be unfair . After all , treating women differently provided them with a valuable protective umbrella to which men could not lay claim . Or so it seemed . And yet when the ...
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... political scientist Gosta Esping- Andersen describes as inevitable the tendency of social policies to function as an " active force in the ordering of social relations , " and this seems to have been the case in the United States.1 When ...
... political scientist Gosta Esping- Andersen describes as inevitable the tendency of social policies to function as an " active force in the ordering of social relations , " and this seems to have been the case in the United States.1 When ...
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... Political scientists and philosophers trace the origins of this particular gen- der system at least as far back as the seventeenth - century Enlightenment , which established the natural equality of all individuals and their right both ...
... Political scientists and philosophers trace the origins of this particular gen- der system at least as far back as the seventeenth - century Enlightenment , which established the natural equality of all individuals and their right both ...
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... political voice and ulti- mately of political equality for women . Persuasive as these voices were to a few women , most contemporaries judged them aberrant and sometimes abhor- rent conceptions of gender . To us , these persistant ...
... political voice and ulti- mately of political equality for women . Persuasive as these voices were to a few women , most contemporaries judged them aberrant and sometimes abhor- rent conceptions of gender . To us , these persistant ...
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... political participation in campaigns for women's rights . Their white feminist allies created racial and class barriers that ignored the interests of black and working - class women.11 Before World War I , work- ing - class feminists ...
... political participation in campaigns for women's rights . Their white feminist allies created racial and class barriers that ignored the interests of black and working - class women.11 Before World War I , work- ing - class feminists ...
Contenido
The Responsibilities of Life | 19 |
The Mere Fact of Sex | 22 |
A Practical Independence | 34 |
A ManRun Company | 45 |
A Defining Condition | 56 |
Maintaining SelfRespect | 64 |
SelfHelp Is the Best Help | 66 |
Have We Lost Courage? | 74 |
More Than Money Is Involved | 178 |
To Confer a Special Benefit on the Marital Relationship | 193 |
What Discriminates? | 203 |
Howre You Going to Feel? | 206 |
The Presidents Commission on the Status of Women | 213 |
Calling into Question the Entire Doctrine of Sex | 226 |
Equal Pay for Equal Work | 234 |
Whats Fair? | 239 |
A Sieve with Holes | 88 |
A Foundling Dumped upon the Doorstep | 101 |
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 |
A Principle of Law but Not of Justice | 170 |
Apportioning the Income Tax | 172 |
Constructing an Equal Opportunity Framework | 241 |
Standing with Lots 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 |
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Advisory Council advocates African-American Altmeyer American argued benefits bill black women civil rights commission Committee community property contributions Court debate Dewson domestic workers earned economic citizenship Edith Green EEOC employers employment equal pay equal rights amendment equity Esther Peterson excluded fairness federal female feminists File Fourteenth Amendment gender groups Hearings on Social House husbands Ibid idea individual industry issue labor force labor market male mandatory joint marriage married couples married women maternalist ment mothers Murray National numbers old age insurance opportunity Pauli Murray PCSW Collection pension percent political protective labor legislation race racial roles Security Act Amendments Senate sess sex discrimination social insurance Social Security Act Status of Women tion Title VII U.S. Congress unemployment insurance unions United University Press wage wage-earning women Welfare widows wife Witte wives woman women workers Women's Bureau women's rights workforce York
Pasajes populares
Página 11 - It requires no argument to show that the right to work for a living in the common occupations of the community is of the very essence of the personal freedom and opportunity that it was the purpose of the Amendment to secure.
Página 12 - Here in America, we have raised the standard of political equality. Shall we be able to add to that, full equality in economic opportunity? No man is wholly free until he is both politically and economically free.
Referencias a este libro
Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America John M. Herrick,Paul H. Stuart Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |