Elsie Clews Parsons Inventing Modern Life |
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| Author:
| Deacon, Desley |
| Series title: | Women in Culture and Society Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-13907-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 1997 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionElsie 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