Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Turk explains how sex equality at work came to be defined as women's access to the same jobs as men, with no acknowledgment of differences due to motherhood or consideration of the unpaid labor necessary to care for a family. . . . Turk's innovative and deeply researched book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of women's labor and social policy." *
American Historical Review *
"A truly original, deeply researched, eye-opening new account of the last half century of U.S. history that puts the struggle over gender and economic justice at its center." * Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University *
"Exhaustively researched and cogently argued,
Equality on Trial transforms how we think of the 1964 Civil Rights Act's inclusion of sex." * Eileen Boris, University of California Santa Barbara *
"An extraordinary and extraordinarily important piece of scholarly work. Katherine Turk's
Equality on Trial is a stunning achievement: deeply researched, powerfully argued, brilliantly elaborated, attentive to detail, nuance, complexity and contradiction, and never losing sight of the individual lives and livelihood at stake." * Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Notions of Sex Equality
Chapter 1. Defining Sex Discrimination
Chapter 2. Class and Class Action
Chapter 3. Feminism and Workplace Fairness
Chapter 4. Reevaluating Women's Work
Chapter 5. Sex Equality and the Service Sector
Chapter 6. A Man's World, but Only for Some
Chapter 7. Opting Out or Buying In
Conclusion. Illusions of Sex Equality
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
