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  1. Elsie Clews Parsons
    Inventing Modern Life
    Author: Deacon, Desley
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    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... more

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    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
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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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226139074
    Series: Women in Culture and Society
    Subjects: Feminism ; United States ; History; Feminists ; United States ; Biography; Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews ; 1874-1941; Sex role ; United States ; History; United States ; Intellectual life ; 20th century; Women anthropologists ; United States ; Biography; Women social scientists ; United States ; Biography; Electronic books
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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

    16 A Modernist DeathEpilogue; Notes; Abbreviations; Archival and Oral History Sources; Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962; Index;
  2. Elsie Clews Parsons
    Inventing Modern Life
    Author: Deacon, Desley
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    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... more

    Location:
    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    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

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226139074
    Series: Women in Culture and Society
    Subjects: Feminism ; United States ; History; Feminists ; United States ; Biography; Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews ; 1874-1941; Sex role ; United States ; History; United States ; Intellectual life ; 20th century; Women anthropologists ; United States ; Biography; Women social scientists ; United States ; Biography; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (541 p.)
    Notes:

    Description based upon print version of record

    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;