York: Knopf, 1978); Diana Trilling,
We Must March, My Darlings: A Critical Decade
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978); Norman Podhoretz,
Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
(New York, NY: Free Press, 1999); and Muriel Gardiner,
Code Name âMaryâ: Memoirs of an American Woman in the Austrian Underground
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983).
A Note on the Author
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University. She is one of Americaâs most renowned scholars, known for her work on labor and gender history. She is the author of the classic history of working women
Out to Work
. Her
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
won the Joan Kelly, Philip Taft, Herbert Hoover, and Bancroft prizes. In 2011â2012, she served as president of the Organization of American Historians.
By the Same Author
Gendering Labor History
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
A Womanâs Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
Women Have Always Worked: An Historical Overview
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A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of
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