Alva Myrdal

Making the Private Public

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2300482
AutoresHedvig Ekerwald (Department of Sociology. P.O. Box 821, SE-751 08 Uppsala, Sweden)
Año2000
Volumen43
Número4
Páginas343-352
Fecha de publicación2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaActa Sociologica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000169930004300407
OpenAlexW2043735595
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas1

Alva Myrdal (1902-86). the Swedish feminist social scientist, is shown here to be a sociologist of honour. Her contribution to sociology is that she analysed the women's perspective of the societal division of labour, and made that private sector an important issue on the public political agenda. If women were to come out as citizens men must play their part in the care work of society and institutions had to be reorganized to accommodate women. men and children. She therefore studied family sociology, sexual politics, education and child care. She also researched peace and conflicts. Her main books are The Crisis in the Population Question (in Swedish with G. Myrdal 1934), Nation and Family (1941), Women's Two Roles (with V. Klein 1956) and The Game of Disarmament (1976

Disarmament · Division of labour · Honour · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of the family · Gender Studies · Law · Social and Educational Sciences