LEADER 02871nam 22004935 450 001 9910496144903321 005 20231209095929.0 010 $a0-520-90930-5 010 $a0-585-11541-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520909304 035 $a(CKB)111057870438046 035 $a(BIP)001157050 035 $a(BIP)007270528 035 $a(DE-B1597)647796 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520909304 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111057870438046 100 $a20231209h19881988 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOn Account of Sex $eThe Politics of Women's Issues, 1945-1968 /$fCynthia Harrison; ed. by Cynthia Harrison 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[1988] 210 4$d1988 215 $a1 online resource (370 p.) 311 $a0-520-06121-7 311 $a0-520-06663-4 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tPART ONE. CONSOLIDATION AND STALEMATE, 1945-1960 -- $t1. The Equal Rights Amendment and the Ambivalent Legacy of World War II -- $t2. "Reasonable Distinctions": An Alternative to the ERA -- $t3. "Specific Bills for Specific Ills": Equal Pay Legislation -- $t4. Tokens of Presidential Esteem: Women Appointees -- $tPART TWO. MOVING AGAIN -- $t5. A New Frontier for Women: The Kennedy Administration -- $t6. The Equal Pay Act of 1963: Compromise and Victory -- $tPART THREE. THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN -- $t7. The PCSW versus the ERA -- $t8. The PCSW and a Unified Agenda for Women's Rights -- $tPART FOUR. BEYOND THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION -- $t9. A Model for Action -- $t10. A New Women's Movement -- $tCONCLUSION. Political Strategies and Outcomes -- $tAppendix 1: Text of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 -- $tAppendix 2: Executive Order 10980 Establishing the President's Commission on the Status of Women -- $tAppendix 3: Members of the President's Commission and Its Committees -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aExamining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / General$2bisacsh 610 $aWomen 610 $aSocial science 610 $aLaw 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / General. 676 $a305.4/2/0973 700 $aHarrison$b Cynthia, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01451986 702 $aHarrison$b Cynthia, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496144903321 996 $aOn account of sex$93653000 997 $aUNINA