1st Edition
Women and the Public Interest Policy and Protest in American Life
By Jessie Bernard
Copyright 1971
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
301 Pages
by
Routledge
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Jessie Bernard, in this serious book, pulls into an analytic framework the research, theory, and polemics about the status and problems of women as they relate to public policy. With a scholarly, deeply concerned eye, the author comprehensively examines areas of public interest, human resource development and utilization, self-fulfillment and sex roles, and the women's liberation movement.... Read more
Introduction; I: Coming to Terms; 1: Women; 2: The Public Interest Policy, Protest; 3: The Paradoxes of Policy; II: The Public Interest and the Sexual Specialization of Functions; 4: The Functions of Women; 5: The All-Pervading Function: Stroking; III: The Public Interest and the Sexual Division of Labor; 6: The Jobs of Women; 7: Cases in Point; IV: The Pursuit of Happiness: Adjusting the Lives of Women to the Establishment; 8: Reconciling the Incompatible Functions of Women; 9: Women at the Professional Level; V: Protest; 10: The Protesters; 11: Strategies and Tactics; VI: The Pursuit of Happiness: Adjusting the Establishment to the Lives of Women; 12: The Gut Issue: Functions Not Jobs; 13: Some Proposed Ways Out
Biography
Jessie Bernard
