Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945 : unsparing honesty / Walter A. Jackson.

London : New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Print version: Jackson, Walter A. Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945 New York, NY : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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October 04, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?