Yvonne Hirdman

Gebundenes Buch

Alva Myrdal

The Passionate Mind

Übersetzer: Schenck, Linda

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 836g
• ISBN-13: 9780253351326
• ISBN-10: 0253351324
• Artikelnr.: 23366744