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Elsie Clews Parsons : inventing modern life / Desley Deacon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deacon, Desley.
- Series:
- Women in culture and society.
- Women in culture and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941.
- Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews.
- Women anthropologists--United States--Biography.
- Women anthropologists.
- Women social scientists--United States--Biography.
- Women social scientists.
- Feminists--United States--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Feminism--United States--History.
- Feminism.
- Sex role--United States--History.
- Sex role.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (541 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Looking forward
- pt. 2. We secessionists ...
- pt. 3. Trans-national America
- pt. 4. All serene.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- "Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962": p. 485-499.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-483) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299104532
- 1299104533
- 9780226139098
- 0226139093
- 9780226139074
- 0226139077
- OCLC:
- 437247592
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