Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945 : unsparing honesty
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Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945 : unsparing honesty
(Routledge studies in modern history)
Routledge, 2021
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Unsparing Honesty Part 1: Becoming Alva, Becoming Gunnar 2. Alva's Family on the Edge of Poverty 3. Alva in the Family Crucible 4. Alva and the Great Hunger 5. From Kalle Pettersson to Gunnar Myrdal 6. Gunnar the Outsider Part 2: Alva and Gunnar 7. "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, 1941 11. The Dialectic of Love and Power 12. Collapse and Catharsis 13. Trolls, Strindberg, and Faust 14. The Feminist Complex 15. Dilemmas of Gender and Race Part 4: Alva in Crisis, 1944 16. Together and Separately 17. The Formation of the Psyche 18. Dream Diary 19. Politician's Wife or Independent Woman?
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