Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City
(Part of the Palgrave Studies in Oral History Series)
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against deeply ingrained cultural assumptions about what constitutes women's work, the middle-class bias of feminism, the daily grinding sexism of male coworkers, and the institutionalized discrimination of employers...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0230619185
ISBN13:9780230619180
Release Date:July 2008
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:276 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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