Jessie Bernard, now eighty-seven, is a prominent and unusually visible American sociologist. In this biography, Robert C. Bannister explores the personal and professional life of this representative of the generation of American women who came of age in the years between the world wars. After embracing the new wave of feminism in the late 1960s, Bernard contributed numerous writings to the cause, including The Female World (1981) and The Female World from a Global Perspective (1987). The quintessential "liberal," she ...
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Jessie Bernard, now eighty-seven, is a prominent and unusually visible American sociologist. In this biography, Robert C. Bannister explores the personal and professional life of this representative of the generation of American women who came of age in the years between the world wars. After embracing the new wave of feminism in the late 1960s, Bernard contributed numerous writings to the cause, including The Female World (1981) and The Female World from a Global Perspective (1987). The quintessential "liberal," she was nonetheless attracted by the "radical" feminist analysis of the early 1970s. In her writings, she thus played out the final act in a lifelong struggle between reason and emotion, objectivity and value, profession and private life.
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