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Elsie Clews Parsons

Inventing Modern Life

Elsie Clews Parsons( )
Author: Deacon, Desley
Series title:Women in Culture and Society Series WCS Ser.
ISBN:978-0-226-13908-1
Publication Date:Mar 1999
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $61.95
Book Description:

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...
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