Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life Volume 1997

(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)

by Desley Deacon

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226139077

ISBN13:9780226139074

Release Date:May 1997

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:538 Pages

Weight:1.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Gender Studies Mythology Mythology & Folk Tales Politics & Social Sciences Professionals & Academics

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