{"product_id":"in-pursuit-of-equity-women-men-and-the-quest-for-economic-citizenship-in-20th-century-america-paperback","title":"In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Kessler-Harris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003esocial 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\u003cbr\u003ethe 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.\u003cbr\u003eOnly in the 1960s and 1970s did the gendered imagination begin to alter--yet the process is far from complete.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlice Kessler-Harris\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eOut to Work\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Woman's Wage\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWomen Have Always Worked\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.44 x 6.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bancroft Prize (2002)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753934487840,"sku":"9780195158021","price":44.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/07a25f39d2778a410cf062ae8f16cd41.webp?v=1780029871","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-pursuit-of-equity-women-men-and-the-quest-for-economic-citizenship-in-20th-century-america-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}