Traces the role of American women in history, from the Iroquois matron and Puritan "goodwife" to the dual-role career woman and mother of the eighties

Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America

History

Evans, Sara M.

Americas

Free Press

What are the environments, the public spaces, in which ordinary people become participants in the complex, ambiguous, engaging conversation about democracy: participators in governance rather than spectators or complainers, victims or accomplices? What are the roots, not simply of movements against oppression, but also of those democratic social movements which both enlarge the opportunities for participation and enhance people's ability to participate in the public world? In Free Spaces, Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte argue for a new understanding of the foundations for democratic politics by analyzing the settings in which people learn to participate in democracy. In their new Introduction, the authors link the concept of free spaces to recent theoretical discussions about community, public life, civil society, and social movements.

Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America

Politics & Social Sciences

Boyte, Harry Chatten

Social Sciences

Harper&Row

What are the environments, the public spaces, in which ordinary people become participants in the complex, ambiguous, engaging conversation about democracy: participators in governance rather than spectators or complainers, victims or accomplices? What are the roots, not simply of movements against oppression, but also of those democratic social movements which both enlarge the opportunities for participation and enhance people's ability to participate in the public world? In Free Spaces, Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte argue for a new understanding of the foundations for democratic politics by analyzing the settings in which people learn to participate in democracy. In their new Introduction, the authors link the concept of free spaces to recent theoretical discussions about community, public life, civil society, and social movements.

Boyte, Harry C.

University of Chicago Press

This in-depth analysis of the Minnesota experience where pay equity has proceeded farther than any other place in the nation focuses on what actually happened in implementing the most important and controversial wage policy since minimum wage and on the political, organizational, and personal consequences of using technocratic methods to change wage policy. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform (Women in Culture & Society)

Business & Money

Nelson, Barbara J.

Economics

Univ of Chicago Pr

"This pathbreaking study sets forth the history of attempts to implement pay equity and evaluates the hidden costs of achieving equity. With candor and intelligence, the authors clearly detail the political, organizational, and personal consequences of comparable worth reform strategies. Using extensive data from Minnesota, where pay equity has proceeded further than in any other state in the nation, as well as comparative information from other states and localities, the authors expose the crucial initial steps which define public policy. "A perceptive and judicious analysis of comparable worth."—Wendy Kaminer, New York Times Book Review "Very well-crafted. . . . Wage Justice has admirably launched the scholarly evaluation of pay equity, revealing the unforeseen complexities of this key feminist public policy innovation."—Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Journal of American History "An insightful glimpse of the policy process."—Marian Lief Palley, American Political Science Review

Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform (Women in Culture and Society)

Nelson, Barbara N.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Evans, Sara M.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Evans, Sara M.