Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945: Unsparing Honesty

ISBN-13: 9780367497071 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 322 str.

Walter Jackson

Opis

This dual biography of Alva and Gunnar Myrdal examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes their struggle to to combine love and work in an equal partnership as they designed the social supports necessary for women both to raise children and to contribute to society.

Spis treści

1. Unsparing Honesty  Part 1: Becoming Alva, Becoming Gunnar  2. Alva’s Family on the Edge of Poverty  3. Alva in the Family Crucible  4. Alva and the Great Hunger  5. From Kalle Pettersson to Gunnar Myrdal  6. Gunnar the Outsider  Part 2: Alva and Gunnar  7. “Faith is that which the heart trusts”  8. “Souls as great as ours”  9. “How to operate on the heart”  10. “I was surprised that you understood me so well”  Part 3: Gunnar in Crisis, 1941  11. The Dialectic of Love and Power  12. Collapse and Catharsis  13. Trolls, Strindberg, and Faust  14. The Feminist Complex  15. Dilemmas of Gender and Race  Part 4: Alva in Crisis, 1944  16. Together and Separately  17. The Formation of the Psyche  18. Dream Diary  19. Politician’s Wife or Independent Woman?