In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century AmericaOxford University Press, 2001 M09 20 - 384 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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... fairness quite as readily as they once had . As the capacity of gendered differentiation to generate consensus on social policy diminished , and then became the subject of attack , what once seemed fair came to be per- ceived as rank ...
... fairness quite as readily as they once had . As the capacity of gendered differentiation to generate consensus on social policy diminished , and then became the subject of attack , what once seemed fair came to be per- ceived as rank ...
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... fairness and served a powerful mediating role . Appeals to gender could enhance the public appetite for some policies and silence resistance to others . They legitimized , rationalized , and justified policies that could and did serve ...
... fairness and served a powerful mediating role . Appeals to gender could enhance the public appetite for some policies and silence resistance to others . They legitimized , rationalized , and justified policies that could and did serve ...
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... fairness or equity that lay beyond a simple economic calculus . Often , when it came to differences between men and women , the notion was clearly articulated , as , for example , in the century - long belief that men deserved a ...
... fairness or equity that lay beyond a simple economic calculus . Often , when it came to differences between men and women , the notion was clearly articulated , as , for example , in the century - long belief that men deserved a ...
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... fairness more readily than throwing them into the labor market . By grant- ing property and inheritance rights to married women , assigning divorced women custody of their own children , and giving married female wage earners the right ...
... fairness more readily than throwing them into the labor market . By grant- ing property and inheritance rights to married women , assigning divorced women custody of their own children , and giving married female wage earners the right ...
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... fairness that found their ways into twenti- eth - century law and social policy . We now understand how public commit- ments to the male - breadwinner family produced different kinds of social rights for men and women . These ...
... fairness that found their ways into twenti- eth - century law and social policy . We now understand how public commit- ments to the male - breadwinner family produced different kinds of social rights for men and women . These ...
Contenido
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CHAPTER 2 Maintaining SelfRespect | 64 |
CHAPTER 3 Questions of Equity | 117 |
CHAPTER 4 A Principle of Law but Not of Justice | 170 |
CHAPTER 5 What Discriminates? | 203 |
CHAPTER 6 Whats Fair? | 239 |
Epilogue | 290 |
Notes | 297 |
Index | 365 |
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Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America John M. Herrick,Paul H. Stuart Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |