{"product_id":"9780226139098","title":"Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life","description":"Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, and an ardent social critic. In \u003ci\u003eElsie Clews Parsons\u003c\/i\u003e, Desley Deacon reconstructs Parsons's efforts to overcome gender biases in both academia and society.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Wonderfully illuminating. . . . Parsons's work resonates strikingly to current trends in anthropology.\"—George W. Stocking, Jr., \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This is the biography of a woman so interesting and effective—a cross between Margaret Mead and Georgia O'Keeffe. . . . A nuanced portrait of this vivid woman.\"—Tanya Luhrmann, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A marvelous new book about the life of Elsie Clews Parsons. . . . It's as though she is sitting on the next rock, a contemporary struggling with the same issues that confront women today: how to combine work, love and child-rearing into one life.\"—Abigail Trafford, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Parsons's splendid life and work continue to illuminate current puzzles about acculturation and diversity.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067579384048,"sku":"9780226139098","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226139098_p0.jpg?v=1763673920","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226139098","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}