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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960725703321

Autore

Kessler-Harris Alice

Titolo

In pursuit of equity : women, men, and the quest for economic citizenship in 20th-century America / / Alice Kessler-Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

9780197713860

0197713866

9780190281335

0190281332

9781280605192

1280605197

9780198020899

0198020899

9780195301786

0195301781

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

305.4209730904

Soggetti

Women's rights - United States - History - 20th century

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - United States - History - 20th century

Women - United States - Economic conditions - 20th century

New Deal, 1933-1939

United States Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Responsibilities of Life; CHAPTER 2 Maintaining Self-Respect; CHAPTER 3 Questions of Equity; CHAPTER 4 A Principle of Law but Not of Justice; CHAPTER 5 What Discriminates?; CHAPTER 6 What's Fair?; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume pierces the skin of arguments and legislation to grasp the preconceptions that have shaped the experience of women: a "gendered imagination" that has defined what men and women alike



think of as fair and desirable. The role of the breadwinner is investigated as a prime example.