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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455277903321

Autore

Deacon Desley

Titolo

Elsie Clews Parsons [[electronic resource] ] : inventing modern life / / Desley Deacon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Ill., : University of Chicago Press, c1997

ISBN

1-299-10453-3

0-226-13909-3

0-226-13907-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (541 p.)

Collana

Women in culture and society

Disciplina

301/.092

B

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

"Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962": p. 485-499.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-483) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Looking forward -- pt. 2. We secessionists ... -- pt. 3. Trans-national America -- pt. 4. All serene.

Sommario/riassunto

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