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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Jackson, Walter A. (1950-2015)
Titre(s) : Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945 [Texte imprimé] : unsparing honesty / Walter A. Jackson
Publication : New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-321 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge studies in modern history
Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in modern history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals:
Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This
dual biography examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes
the connections between the public and private dimensions of their lives. Drawing
on their extensive personal correspondence and diaries between their electrifying
first meeting in 1919 and their protracted marital crisis in the early 1940s, this
book presents the psychologist and the economist as they sought to combine love and
work in an equal partnership. Alva and Gunnar simultaneously experimented with a new
kind of intimate relationship and designed the social supports necessary for women
both to bear and raise children and to contribute their talents and energies to society.
Like all genuine revolutionaries, they struggled to free themselves from the burdens
of their upbringings; to evaluate their own actions with what they called "unsparing
honesty," and to test their policy recommendations in practice, measuring everything
against the values they shared"
Sujet(s) : Myrdal, Gunnar (1898-1987)
Myrdal, Alva (1902-1986)
Travail et vie personnelle -- Suède -- 20e siècle
Travail et vie personnelle -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Relations hommes-femmes -- Suède -- 20e siècle
Relations hommes-femmes -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781000381269. - ISBN 1000381269. - ISBN 9780367497071 (erroné). - ISBN 9781003047056.
- ISBN 100304705X. - ISBN 9781000381252. - ISBN 1000381250. - ISBN 9780367497088 (erroné).
- ISBN 0367497077 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46823985h
Notice n° :
FRBNF46823985
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 1. Unsparing HonestyPart 1: Becoming Alva, Becoming Gunnar2. Alva's Family on the
Edge of Poverty3. Alva in the Family Crucible4. Alva and the Great Hunger5. From Kalle
Pettersson to Gunnar Myrdal6. Gunnar the OutsiderPart 2: Alva and Gunnar7. “Faith
is that which the heart trusts”8. “Souls as great as ours”9. “How to operate on the
heart”10. “I was surprised that you understood me so well”Part 3: Gunnar in Crisis,
194111. The Dialectic of Love and Power12. Collapse and Catharsis13. Trolls, Strindberg,
and Faust14. The Feminist Complex15. Dilemmas of Gender and RacePart 4: Alva in Crisis,
194416. Together and Separately17. The Formation of the Psyche18. Dream Diary19. Politician's
Wife or Independent Woman?
