Women Have Always Worked: A Concise History - Couverture souple

Kessler-Harris, Alice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 025208358X ISBN 13 : 9780252083587

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2018

Synopsis

A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women--housewives and trade unionists, immigrants and African Americans, professionals and menial laborers, and women from across the class spectrum. She delves into issues ranging from the gendered nature of the success ethic to the social activism and the meaning of citizenship for female wage workers. This second edition adds artwork and features significant updates. A new chapter by Kessler-Harris follows women into the early twenty-first century as they confront barriers of race, sex, and class to earn positions in the new information society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Emerita at Columbia University and a professor at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Her many books include In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America and A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 025208358X
• ISBN 13: 9780252083587
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 254
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• Personne responsable: non disponible