Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir
by Sissela Bok
Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir is the biography of an exceptional Swedish and United Nations diplomat whose influence shaped the nuclear disarmament movement, challenged perceptions about the role of women in western society, and raised awareness about racial inequality in the southern United States. This highly personal memoir written by her daughter Sissela describes a family life charged by two powerful intellectual personalities, and includes many excerpts from letters and other family papers.
Widely respected as a modern philosopher, Sissela Bok originally read psychology at university, in deference to the wishes of her mother Alva Myrdal. Being the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners, with her father Gunnar Myrdal awarded the Nobel prize for economics, Sissela Myrdal Bok offers a rich intellectual perspective in her own work.
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About the Author
Sissela Myrdal Bok is Senior Visiting Fellow at the
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and a
Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
A former member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, she serves on the editorial
board of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and
on the boards of Common Knowledge, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
During her distinguished academic career she has published
a series of books based upon the ideals of universal human values.
Sissela Bok received the George Orwell Award and the Melcher Book Award for Lying : Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. Widely respected as a modern philosopher, Sissela originally read psychology at university, in deference to the wishes of her mother Nobel Peace Laureate Alva Myrdal. Being the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners, with her father Gunnar Myrdal awarded the Nobel prize for economics, Sissela Myrdal Bok offers a rich intellectual perspective in her own work.
