Alva Myrdal: The Passionate Mind Hirdman Yvonne
Alva Myrdal: The Passionate Mind Hirdman Yvonne Alva Myrdal, the scholarly partner and wife of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, was an innovative social scientist and thinker in her own right. Her…
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Alva Myrdal: The Passionate Mind Hirdman Yvonne
Alva Myrdal, the scholarly partner and wife of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, was an innovative social scientist and thinker in her own right. Her extensive disarmament efforts won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She helped to lay the intellectual foundations of Sweden's social welfare state, pioneered educational innovations, and became an activist for human rights.
Myrdal's published work and the choices she made in her life spoke to the tensions that these conflicts produced and to the ways she tried to reconcile them. At the same time, she struggled with many of the issues that today's ambitious women still find challenging. Hers is a remarkable and dramatic story that transcends borders and has particular resonance today.
Yvonne Hirdman's biography of Alva Myrdal has been published to great acclaim in Sweden. In it, she creates an intimate, impassioned portrait of one of