The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics: Myrdals and the Interwar Population Crises

by Allan C. Carlson

This devastating account of the work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal is a monumental case study in the uses and abuses of social science. It portrays how these two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a new domestic order in Sweden. The book focuses on the Myrdals' unique fusion of socialism and feminism with nationalism and pro-nationalism in their joint 1934 book, Crisis in the Population Question turning the issue of Sweden's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887382991
• ISBN13: 9780887382994
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"