Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life - Couverture souple

Deacon, Desley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226139085 ISBN 13 : 9780226139081

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, and an ardent social critic. In Elsie Clews Parsons, Desley Deacon reconstructs Parsons's efforts to overcome gender biases in both academia and society.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, and an ardent social critic. In Elsie Clews Parsons, Desley Deacon reconstructs Parsons's efforts to overcome gender biases in both academia and society.

"Wonderfully illuminating. . . . Parsons's work resonates strikingly to current trends in anthropology."—George W. Stocking, Jr., Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"This is the biography of a woman so interesting and effective—a cross between Margaret Mead and Georgia O'Keeffe. . . . A nuanced portrait of this vivid woman."—Tanya Luhrmann, New York Times Book Review

"A marvelous new book about the life of Elsie Clews Parsons. . . . It's as though she is sitting on the next rock, a contemporary struggling with the same issues that confront women today: how to combine work, love and child-rearing into one life."—Abigail Trafford, Washington Post

"Parsons's splendid life and work continue to illuminate current puzzles about acculturation and diversity."— New Yorker

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226139085
• ISBN 13: 9780226139081
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 538
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible