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Alva Myrdal: The Passionate Mind
Contributor(s): Hirdman, Yvonne (Author)

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ISBN: 0253351324     ISBN-13: 9780253351326
Publisher: Indiana University Press
OUR PRICE: $36.70  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: June 2008
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2007050892
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 1.38" H x 6.64" W x 9.52" L (1.99 lbs) 448 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Chronicle of Higher Education 08/08/2008 pg. 16
Choice 07/01/2009
 
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Alva Myrdal, the scholarly partner and wife of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, was an innovative social scientist and thinker in her own right. She helped to lay the intellectual foundations of Sweden's social welfare state, pioneered educational innovations, and became an activist for human rights. Her extensive disarmament efforts won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. At the same time, she struggled with many of the issues that today's ambitious women still find challenging. Myrdal's published work and the choices she made in her life spoke to the tensions that these conflicts produced and to the ways she tried to reconcile them. Hers is a remarkable and dramatic story that transcends borders and has particular resonance today. Yvonne Hirdman's biography of Alva Myrdal has been published to great acclaim in Sweden. In it, she creates an intimate, impassioned portrait of one of the great women of the 20th century.

 
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