Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life Volume 1997

ISBN-13: 9780226139081 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 538 str.

Desley Deacon; Catharine R. Stimpson

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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""