age ~73
from Saugus, MA
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at ...
This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural hist...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
488
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN #
0807844950
EAN Code
9780807844953
ISBN #
10
This novel offers a powerful account of family life and labor conflicts, told through the eyes of a tough, resilient Appalachian woman who is, according to Richard Wright, "one of the most impressive proletarian characters in our literature." Daughter of the Hills exposes the economic conditions of ...
Author
Myra Page
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN #
0935312595
EAN Code
9780935312591
ISBN #
8
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 ...
Author
Alice Kessler-Harris
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
196
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
ISBN #
6
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 Ma...
Author
Alice Kessler-Harris
Binding
Paperback
Pages
448
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
ISBN #
1608193950
EAN Code
9781608193950
ISBN #
5
The classic novel of Jewish immigrants, with period photographs. This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conceptio...
Author
Anzia Yezierska
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Persea
ISBN #
0892552905
EAN Code
9780892552900
ISBN #
4
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 volu...
Author
Alice Kessler-Harris
Binding
Paperback
Pages
208
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN #
0912670673
EAN Code
9780912670676
ISBN #
3
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 ...
Author
Alice Kessler-Harris
Binding
Paperback
Pages
384
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195158024
EAN Code
9780195158021
ISBN #
2
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 individ...
Author
Alice Kessler-Harris
Binding
Paperback
Pages
414
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195157095
EAN Code
9780195157093
ISBN #
1