Elsie Clews Parsons : Inventing Modern Life Hardcover - 1997
by Desley Deacon
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- Title Elsie Clews Parsons : Inventing Modern Life
- Author Desley Deacon
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 538
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0226139077I3N10
- ISBN 9780226139074 / 0226139077
- Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.34 x 1.52 in (23.52 x 16.10 x 3.86 cm)
- Reading level 1470
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social conditions, United States - Race relations
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96036257
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
Elsie Clews Parsons was a relentlessly modern woman. A pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, an ardent social critic, she challenged Americans to develop flexible and dynamic gender, family, and social arrangements that fit the new century. From 1912, when she incorporated ethnographic data on upper-class New York into a series of tersely ironic books and articles, Parsons brought to anthropology a passionate desire to educate the public to accept and welcome sexual and social diversity. Desley Deacon's vibrant and richly detailed biography examines the powerful connections linking Parsons's intellectual commitments to her extraordinary life experience. A wealth of correspondence and memoirs allows Deacon to vividly reconstruct Parsons's unconventional marriage, her intimate friendships, her ties to a burgeoning avant-garde, her wide-ranging travels, and her bitter attempts to escape the stifling conventions of New York's social elite - in short, all of her efforts to overcome gender biases in both academia and society. There is an immediacy to Parsons's struggles, a context to her modernism, and an urgency to her message. Her remarkable intensity compelled her to redefine the social and sexual values of her day, to explore gender roles in other cultural settings, and to thoroughly detonate, through word and deed, entrenched nineteenth-century conceptions of women, civilization, and morality. In Elsie Clews Parsons, Deacon has fashioned a deeply insightful portrayal of an uncommon woman with the uncommon courage to radically reconstruct sexual identity, for herself and for the modern age.
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/1997, Page 430
- Library Journal, 03/15/1997, Page 68
- New York Times, 06/29/1997, Page 23
- Publishers Weekly, 03/31/1997, Page 0