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In pursuit of equity: women, men, and the quest for economic citizenship in 20th century America
Alice Kessler-Harris
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements (page ix)
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Introduction (page 3)
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CHAPTER 1 The Responsibilities of Life (page 19)
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The Mere Fact of Sex (page 22)
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A Practical Independence (page 34)
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A Man-Run Company (page 45)
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Marriage: A Defining Condition (page 56)
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CHAPTER 2 Maintaining Self-Respect (page 64)
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Self-Help Is the Best Help (page 66)
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Have We Lost Courage (page 74)
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A Sieve with Holes (page 88)
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A Foundling Dumped upon the Doorstep (page 101)
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CHAPTER 3 Questions of Equity (page 117)
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Matters of Right (page 121)
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The Hardest Problem of the Whole Thing (page 130)
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They Feel That They Have Lost Citizenship (page 142)
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It Would Be a Great Comfort to Him (page 156)
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CHAPTER 4 A Principle of Law but Not of Justics (page 170)
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Apportioning the Income Tax (page 172)
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More Than Money Is Involved (page 178)
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To Confer a Special Benefit on the Marital Relationship (page 193)
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CHAPTER 5 What Discriminates? (page 203)
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How're You Going to Feel? (page 206)
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The President's Commission on the Status of Women (page 213)
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Calling into Question the Entire Doctrine of Sex (page 226)
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Equal Pay for Equal Work (page 234)
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CHAPTER 6 What's Fair? (page 239)
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Constructing an Equal Opportunity Framework (page 241)
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Standing with Lot's Wife (page 246)
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Divided Women (page 267)
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At First Glance, the Idea May Seem Silly (page 275)
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History Is Moving in This Direction (page 280)
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Epilogue (page 290)
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Notes (page 297)
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Index (page 365)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JIH | 33.3 (Winter. 2003): 499-501 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/39312 |
WRB | 19.4 (Jan. 2002): 15-16 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4023839 |
BHR | 77.2 (Summer. 2003): 339-342 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/30041163 |
FS | 29.1 (Spring. 2003): 85-102 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3178476 |
LHR | 22.3 (Autumn. 2004): 668-670 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4141706 |
JAH | 89.2 (Sept. 2002): 599-600 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3092178 |
SIG | 30.4 (Summer. 2005): 2270-2274 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/429260 |
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Published: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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