Ava Helen Pauling - Partner, Activist, Visionary

Informationen zum Autor Mina Carson has written about women's history from a number of angles, from the settlement house movement to rock and roll to issues of war, peace, and civil rights. She received her PhD in history from Harvard University in 1984. An associate professor of history at Oregon State University, her current research and teaching interests include the history of popular music, social work and psychotherapy, and photography. She is the author of Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930 (University of Chicago Press) and, with Tisa Lewis and Susan M. Shaw, Girls Rock! Fifty Years of Women Making Music (The University Press of Kentucky). Klappentext The story of Ava Helen Pauling - her rich career as an activist first for civil rights and liberties, then against nuclear testing, and finally for peace, feminism, and environmental stewardship - is best told in the context of her enduring partnership with her husband, Linus Pauling. In this first biography of Ava Helen Pauling, Mina Carson reveals the complex and fascinating history behind one of the great love stories of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Mina Carson, Mina Julia Carson
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2013
• EAN: 9780870716980
• ISBN: 978-0-87071-698-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education