Volume 39, Number 5 · March 5, 1992

There's No Place Like Home

By Sue M. Halpern
Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir
by Sissela Bok

Addison-Wesley (A Merloyd Lawrence Book), 375 pp., $22.95

Childhood
by Jan Myrdal, translated by Christine Swanson

Lake View Press, 182 pp., $18.95

Far along in the impersonal, academic study of women and work, Women's Two Roles, which the Swedish social scientist, diplomat, and peace activist Alva Myrdal wrote with Viola Klein in 1956, she inadvertently forecasts her own future.



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