TY  - GEN
T1  - Elsie Clews Parsons : inventing modern life
T2  - Women in culture and society.
A1  - Deacon, Desley
LA  - English
PP  - Chicago, Ill.
PB  - University of Chicago Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm45732782
AB  - 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.
OP  - 520
CN  - GN21.P37 D43 1997eb
SN  - 0226139077
SN  - 9780226139074
SN  - 0226139093
SN  - 9780226139098
SN  - 0226139085
KW  - Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, : 1874-1941.
KW  - Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, : 1874-1941
KW  - Women Indianists : United States : Biography.
KW  - Women anthropologists : United States : Biography.
KW  - Women social scientists : United States : Biography.
KW  - Feminists : United States : Biography.
KW  - Feminism : United States : History.
KW  - Sex role : United States : History.
KW  - United States : Intellectual life : 20th century.
KW  - United States : Race relations.
KW  - United States : Social conditions.
KW  - Femmes amérindianistes : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - Femmes anthropologues : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - Femmes spécialistes des sciences sociales : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - Féministes : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - Féminisme : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - États-Unis : Vie intellectuelle : 20e siècle.
KW  - États-Unis : Relations raciales.
KW  - États-Unis : Conditions sociales.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Social Scientists & Psychologists.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Regional Studies.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : General.
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Feminists
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women anthropologists
KW  - Women Indianists
KW  - Women social scientists
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -