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Rossi, Alice S. was born on September 24, 1922 in New York City. Daughter of William A. and Emma (Winkler) Schaerr.
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This life-course analysis of family development focuses on the social dynamics among family members. It features parent-child relationships in a larger context, by examining the help exchange between kin and nonkin and the intergenerational transmission of family characteristics.
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Gender and the Life Course is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the lives of women and men as they are affected by history, culture, demography, economic and political stratification, and the biopsychological processes that attend maturation and aging. The book covers three major topics. Part I, which examines gender and the life course in broad historical perspective, includes a summary of recent work in biological ecology and primatology, and an analysis of the persistence of cultural and gender differences in role organization in societies undergoing the transition from agrarianism to industrialism. Other essays trace the changes in sources of household income of industrial workers over the life span, and review temporal and gender differences in life span transitions. Part II examines gender differentiation in a variety of contexts: psychological, psychobiologi-cal, and sociological. Alice Rossi's ASA Presidential Address reviews recent work on fathering and mothering, and argues that sociological explanations of such gender differences need supplementation by concepts from evolutionary theory and the neurosciences. Three essays deal with gender and economy: one shows how gender stratification took hold in the early stages of industrialization in France, another demonstrates the persistence of gender stratification in modern economies, the third focuses on ideology in relation to gender and political power. Part III examines various aspects of the aged in contemporary society, including an argument for an jnterpretive social science that uses diverse methods to improve our ability to describe and interpret many facets of the lives of elderly men and women; a review of the methodology used to study changes in the aged population over time; and an overview of existing data sets that permit further cohort and longitudinal analyses of the aged. The final essays review social policies as they affect the elderly, with particular attention to the fact that most very old people are women, and the impact of the greatly expanded life course for family and kin relations. Gender and the Life Course is a state-of-the-art assessment of the best work currently being done' on gender and age a's maturational factors and is essential reading for anyone interested in adult development and gender roles.
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Rossi, Alice S. was born on September 24, 1922 in New York City. Daughter of William A. and Emma (Winkler) Schaerr.
Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1957. 9 honorary degrees.
"s scholarship focused on the status of women at work, in the family, and their sexual life. Her writings helped to build the foundations of the feminist movement. Her early advocacy of abortion and reproductive rights caused her to gain a lot of national attention.
One of her main academic pursuits was the study of people"s lifecourse from youth to age, particularly in the case of women.
In the article, Professor argued that for most women motherhood had become a full-time occupation, a state of affairs that hurt not only women but also the larger society in which they lived. Foreign the well-being of both the women and the culture, she wrote, parity of the sexes is essential.
This article"s publication coincided with the publication the same year of The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which dealt with similar issues. Familiar today, Professor ’s argument was considered subversive at the time.
As a result, she was called a monster, an unnatural woman and an unfit mother, as she recalled in interviews afterward.
In 1966,, along with a group that included Betty Friedan, founded the National Organization for Women (National Organization for Women). In later work, also controversial, Professor argued that the cultural divide between men and women was not the product of socialization alone, as the prevailing view held, but was partly rooted in inborn biological differences between the sexes. Professor held appointments at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College before finally joining the University of Massachusetts faculty, where she was appointed the Harriet Martineau professor of Sociology.
She remained there from 1974 until her retirement in 1991, at which point she became an emerita professor
She also was the 74th president of the American Sociological Association.
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Founder, board member National Organization of Women, 1966-1970. President Sociologists for Women in Society, 1971-1972. Member American Sociological Association (president 1983-1984), Eastern Sociological Society (president 1973-1974).
Married Max Kitt, December 1941 (divorced September 1951). Married Peter H. Rossi, September 29, 1951 (deceased 2006). Children: Peter Eric, Kristin Alice, Nina Alexis.