Alice Kessler Harris: 4 books
A Difficult Woman
The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
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...
In Pursuit of Equity
Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
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...
Women Have Always Worked
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
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...
A Woman's Wage
Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which...