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...
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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 interesting and effective-a cross between Margaret Mead and Georgia O'Keeffe. . . . A nuanced portrait of this vivid woman."-Tanya Luhrmann, New York Times Boo
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
16 A Modernist DeathEpilogue; Notes; Abbreviations; Archival and Oral History Sources; Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962; Index;
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...
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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 interesting and effective-a cross between Margaret Mead and Georgia O'Keeffe. . . . A nuanced portrait of this vivid woman."-Tanya Luhrmann, New York Times Boo
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
16 A Modernist DeathEpilogue; Notes; Abbreviations; Archival and Oral History Sources; Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962; Index;