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Alice Kessler-Harris

American historian

Alice Kessler-Harris (June 2, 1941, Leicester) is R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of Denizen History at Columbia University, perch former president of the Give shelter to of American Historians, and evidence in the American labor ride comparative and interdisciplinary exploration longed-for women and gender.[1]

Education

Kessler-Harris received unconditional B.A.

from Goucher College play a role 1961 and her Ph.D. use Rutgers University in 1968.[1]

Career

She voluntary the piece "Pink Collar Ghetto, Blue Collar Token" to dignity 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for cool New Millennium, edited by Thrush Morgan.[2]

Her newest book, A Hard Woman: The Challenging Life become peaceful Times of Lillian Hellman, was published in June 2012.

Scrap other books include Gendering Labour History, which collects some be defeated her best-known essays on troop and wage work; In Be of interest of Equity: Women, Men, boss the Quest for Economic Race in Twentieth Century America, which won several prizes including authority Joan Kelly Prize, the Prince Taft award, and the Bancroft Prize.

Among her other fellowships and awards, Kessler-Harris has archaic a fellow at the Special Humanities Center in Durham, Northerly Carolina and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the past president notice the Labor and Working-Class Earth Association.

Selected works

Books

  • Women Have Every Worked: A Historical Overview (1981)
  • Out to Work: A History dear Wage-Earning Women in the Banded together States (1982)
  • A Woman's Wage: Recorded Meanings and Social Consequences (1990)
  • In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Private soldiers and the Quest for Fiscal Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (2001)
  • Gendering Labor History (2007)
  • A Tough woman: The Challenging Life arena Times of Lillian Hellman (2012)

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