Alice rossi biography

Alice Emma Rossi (née Schaerr; September 24, 1922 – November 3, 2009) was an American feminist and sociologist.
Alice Emma Rossi was an American feminist and sociologist.
Alice Rossi was born in Varese (Italy) in 1992.

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Alice Rossi

Alice S. Rossi, one of the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW), as well as the seventy-fourth president of the American Sociological Association, said:

“In 1964 I wrote an article in the journal Daedalus called ‘Equality Between the Sexes: An Immodest Proposal.’ By later feminist standards my argument for equality was mild indeed, but the reaction of traditionalists in 1964 was not. I was considered by some a monster, an unnatural woman, and an unfit mother. My husband, also a sociologist, received an anonymous condolence card lamenting the death of his wife.

“My theme was simple enough. For the first time in known history, I wrote, motherhood had become a full-time occupation for adult women, and motherhood was not enough. For the psychological and physical health of mother and child, for the sake of the trembling family unit, and for the progress of society, equality between men and women was essential and inevitable.

“Older women, who were past career choices, resented my article; younger women felt reprieved. I know for certain

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Alice S. Rossi

Sociologist and feminist

Alice Emma Rossi (née Schaerr; September 24, 1922 – November 3, 2009) was an American feminist and sociologist.

Biography

Her scholarship focused on the status of women at work, in the family, and their sexual life. Her writings helped to build the foundations of the feminist movement. Her early advocacy of abortion and reproductive rights caused her to gain a lot of national attention. One of her main academic pursuits was the study of people's lifecourse from youth to older age, particularly in the case of women.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

One of her most influential feminist articles was “Equality Between the Sexes: An Immodest Proposal.” First presented in 1963 at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, it was published the next year in the academy's journal Daedalus. In the article, Rossi argued that for most women motherhood had become a full-time occupation, a state of affairs that hurt not only women but also the larger society in which they lived. For the well-being of bot

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Veteran Feminists of America

ALICE ROSSI, FEMINIST ICON

In the years before the founding of NOW, no matter how brilliant, educated and ambitious they were, women were expected to be wives and mothers only. But not Alice Rossi. She was out in the world working, studying and active in political causes. Yet she wasn't really aware of feminism until she was in her 40's, she says, when she became an enthusiastic proselytizer for womens rights.

Always politically active for the socialist cause, Alice finally awoke to sexist discrimination: she and other women were doing all the work and the men were getting all the credit. "That's when I began to write and talk about women's rights."

In 1964 her groundbreaking article Equality Between the Sexes: An Immodest Proposal was published in Daedalus and reprinted the following year in Women in America. It has never ceased to inspire and astound. Not content to simply define sex equality, she offered a program to achieve it: First was the provision of a network of childcare center