Alva Myrdal

Autorentext
Yvonne Hirdman is Professor of Gender History at the University of Stockholm. She is author or co-author of more than ten books on women's and labor history and the welfare state. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Linda Schenck's translations include works by Selma Lagerlöf, Kerstin Ekman, and Majgull Axelsson.

Klappentext
In it, she creates an intimate, impassioned portrait of one of the great women of the 20th century.

Zusammenfassung
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. This biography tells her story.

Inhalt
Contents
Preface
Chronology
Prologue
1. The Child Prodigy
2. Love by Letter
3. The Two Cages
4. Encounter with Reality
5. Joie de Vivre
6. The Firm-Social Engineering, Inc.
7. A New Deal?
8. A Human Dilemma
9. Breeding Secret Dissatisfaction
10. "Good God, what a challenge!"
11. The Ambassador
12. A Cause, Gunnar, a Cause!
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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