Alice s rossi biography
Rossi was born in New York City in She earned her undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College in She married Peter Rossi in (see separate profile on Peter Rossi, who died in ).!
Alice Emma Rossi (née Schaerr; September 24, – November 3, ) was an American feminist and sociologist.
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
