Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life Volume 1997

by Desley Deacon

Book Overview

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"