Desley Deacon is associate professor of American studies and sociology at the
University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Managing Gender: The
State, the New Middle Class and Women Workers 1830-1930 ( Oxford
University Press, 1989) and co-author of Elites in Australia ( Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1979).

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Deacon, Desley.

Elsie Clews Parsons: inventing modern life / Desley Deacon.
p. cm. -- (Women in culture and society)

"Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962": p. 485.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-226-13907-7 (alk. paper)

1. Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941. 2. Women
anthropologists--United States--Biography. 3. Women social
scientists--United States--Biography. 4. Feminists--United States--
Biography. 5. Feminism--United States--History. 6. Sex role--
United States--History. 7. United States--Intellectual life--20th
century. 8. United States--Race relations. 9. United States--
Social conditions. I. Title. II. Series.
GN21.P37D43 1997
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