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1 online resource (541 pages) |
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Women in Culture and Society Series |
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Women in culture and society.
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Elsie Clews Parsons INVENTING MODERN LIFE; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations and Maps; Preface; Prologue: Strength to Forget the Past; Part One: Looking Forward; 1 The Young Adventuress; 2 Travels of the Mind; 3 The Experimental Life; Part Two: We Secessionists ... ; Part Three: Trans-National America; 4 The Voyage Out; 5 New Science; 6 New Woman; 7 New Marriage; 8 Dear Propagandist; 9 The End of the Conversation; 10 Saving Herself; 11 The Other Continents among Us; 12 Disciplinary Politics; 13 Jessica at Fifty; 14 Other Americas; Part Four: All Serene; 15 Elsie's Lifework--Con Amore |
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16 A Modernist DeathEpilogue; Notes; Abbreviations; Archival and Oral History Sources; Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962; Index |
| 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 Luhrma |
| Analysis |
gender, feminism, anthropology, academia, social norms, convention, biography, nonfiction, women anthropologists, race, pueblo indians, native americans, indigenous, adultery, infidelity, marriage, childrearing, parenting, division of labor, freedom, independence, family life, sexuality, modernism, identity, female scientist, cultural differences, tolerance, pluralism, diversity, history, funding |
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Print version record |
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Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941.
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Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941 fast |
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Women anthropologists -- United States -- Biography
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Women social scientists -- United States -- Biography
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Feminists -- United States -- Biography
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Feminism -- United States -- History
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Sex role -- United States -- History
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Feminism
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Feminists
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Intellectual life
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Race relations
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Sex role
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Social conditions
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Women anthropologists
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Women social scientists
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
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United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226139098 |
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0226139093 |
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