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UNINA9910455277903321 |
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Autore |
Deacon Desley |
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Titolo |
Elsie Clews Parsons [[electronic resource] ] : inventing modern life / / Desley Deacon |
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Chicago, Ill., : University of Chicago Press, c1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-10453-3 |
0-226-13909-3 |
0-226-13907-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (541 p.) |
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Collana |
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Women in culture and society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women anthropologists - United States |
Women social scientists - United States |
Feminists - United States |
Feminism - United States - History |
Sex role - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
United States Intellectual life 20th century |
United States Race relations |
United States Social conditions |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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"Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962": p. 485-499. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-483) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Looking forward -- pt. 2. We secessionists ... -- pt. 3. Trans-national America -- pt. 4. All serene. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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