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Kessler-Harris received her Bachelor of Arts from Goucher College in 1961 and her Doctor of Philosophy from Rutgers University in 1968.
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Table of Contents ix Author's Acknowledgments 2 ONE: The Meaning of Work In Women's Lives 6 Work in the Colonies 8 The Success Ethic 10 PHOTO FEATURE-The Working Lives of Women in the U.S. 14 Woman's Separate Sphere 16 Bread and Roses 20 TWO: HOusehold Labor 22 The Colonial Household 30 The Household Transformed 35 The Affluent Housewife 36 PHOTO FEATURE-Taking Care of Family Needs 44 Patterns of Poverty 51 Post-War Prosperity 54 THREE: Working for wages 56 Creating a Labor Force 62 The Domestic Code 70 From Family Worker to Wage Worker 77 Unenviable Jobs 78 PHOTO FEATURE-Women in the Paid Work Force 87 What Is to Be Done? 95 Streamlining Operations 102 FOUR: Women's Social Mission 104 Moral Reform 108 Enlarging Women's Sphere 114 Social Housekeeping 119 The Helping Professions 122 PHOTO FEATURE-Working to Reform the World 125 Women as Housewives 132 Women as Consumers 136 FIVE: changing the Shape of the Work Force 138 Depression and War 144 Contemporary Patterns 148 Fighting Discrimination 152 PHOTO FEATURE-A Changing and Growing Labor Force 157 Looking into the Future 167 About the Author 167 A Note on Language 169 Notes 181 Index
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First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark book, the author has updated the original and written a new Afterword.
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(Published 1981 by the Feminist Press. HARDCOVER, well ill...)
Published 1981 by the Feminist Press. HARDCOVER, well illustrated with black and white photos of the history of women in the both the workplace and the household. Has 193 pages. Size: 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 x 7/8 apprx.
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This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual trajectory of one of today's leading historians of gender and labor in the United States. The seventeen essays included in Alice Kessler-Harris’s Gendering Labor History are divided into 4 sections, narrating the evolution and refinement of her central project: to show gender’s fundamental importance to the shaping of U.S. history and working-class culture. The first section considers women and organized labor; the second pushes this analysis towards a gendered labor history as the essays consider the gendering of male as well as female workers and how gender operates with and within the social category of class. Subsequent sections broaden this framework to examine U.S. social policy as a whole, the question of economic citizenship, and wage labor from a global perspective. While each essay represents an important intervention in American historiography in itself, the collection taken as a whole reveals Kessler-Harris as someone who has always pushed the field of American history to greater levels of inclusion and analysis, and who continues to do so today.
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Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of "The Little Foxes" and "Toys in the Attic" is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In "A Difficult Woman," renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time. Kessler-Harris renders Hellman's feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions: as a non-Jewish Jew, a displaced Southerner, a passionate political voice without a party, an artist immersed in commerce, a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women's movement, a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed, and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly questioned the possibility of achieving truth and doubted her memory.Hellman was a writer whose plays spoke the language of morality yet whose achievements foundered on accusations of mendacity. Above all else, she was a woman who made her way in a man's world. Kessler-Harris has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman, empathetic yet unsparing, that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved, from New Orleans to Broadway to the hearing room of HUAC. "A Difficut Woman" is a major work of literary and intellectual history. This will be one of the most reviewed, and most acclaimed, books of 2012.
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( Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letter...)
Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In A Difficult Woman, renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time. Kessler-Harris renders Hellman's feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions: as a non-Jewish Jew, a displaced Southerner, a passionate political voice without a party, an artist immersed in commerce, a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women's movement, a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed, and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly questioned the possibility of achieving truth and doubted her memory. Hellman was a writer whose plays spoke the language of morality yet whose achievements foundered on accusations of mendacity. Above all else, she was a woman who made her way in a man's world. Kessler-Harris has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman, empathetic yet unsparing, that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved, from New Orleans to Broadway to the hearing room of HUAC. A Difficut Woman is a major work of literary and intellectual history. This will be one of the most reviewed, and most acclaimed, books of 2012.
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In 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 social 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 the 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. Only in the 1960s and 1970s did the gendered imagination begin to alter--yet the process is far from complete.
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Divided into five thematic sections, the book illustrates different aspects of women's paid and unpaid work, and shows how their roles have changed over the past two hundred years. Kessler-Harris weaves together the experiences of poor, wealthy, middle-class women; trade union, professional and volunteer women; immigrant, non-English speaking, and black women; tracking their labor from the colonial household to the factories and beyond.
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Kessler-Harris received her Bachelor of Arts from Goucher College in 1961 and her Doctor of Philosophy from Rutgers University in 1968.
She specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender. She contributed the piece "Pink Collar Ghetto, Blue Collar Token" to the 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women"s Anthology for a New Millennium, edited by Robin Morgan. Her newest book, A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman, was published in June 2012.
Among her other fellowships and awards, Kessler-Harris has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
She is the past president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association.
(First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the ...)
(First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the ...)
(Table of Contents ix Author's Acknowledgments 2 ONE: T...)
(Divided into five thematic sections, the book illustrates...)
(Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters ...)
( Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letter...)
( This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual...)
(In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transfo...)
(Published 1981 by the Feminist Press. HARDCOVER, well ill...)