Reading Benedict/reading Mead : feminism, race, and imperial visions /

As anthropologists, public intellectuals, and feminists, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead played remarkable roles in twentieth-century life and thought--and far beyond the academy. Their work helped to popularize anthropology while introducing such terms as culture and racism into common parlance. At...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Janiewski, Dolores E., 1948-, Banner, Lois W.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Series:	New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
Subjects:	Benedict, Ruth, > 1887-1948. Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978. Benedict, Ruth, > 1887-1948 Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978 Benedict, Ruth > 1887-1948 Mead, Margaret > 1901-1978 Benedict, Ruth Fulton, > 1887-1948. Mead, Margaret. Benedict, Ruth. Women anthropologists > Biography. Women anthropologists > Attitudes. Feminist anthropology. Racism in anthropology. Anthropologists' writings, American > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > United States. Femmes anthropologues > Biographies. Femmes anthropologues > Attitudes. Féminisme et anthropologie. Racisme en anthropologie. Écrits d'anthropologues américains > Histoire et critique. Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique. Femmes et littérature > États-Unis. 73.01 history of ethnology. American literature > Women authors. Anthropologists' writings, American. Women and literature. Women anthropologists. Anthropologie United States. Biographies. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Introduction: Being and becoming Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead / Dolores Janiewski and Lois W. Banner
Woven lives, raveled texts : Benedict, Mead, and representational doubleness / Dolores Janiewski
"The bo-cu plant" : Ruth Benedict and gender / Lois W. Banner
Margaret Mead, the Samoan girl and the flapper : geographies of selfhood in Coming of age in Samoa / Maureen Molloy
Coming of age, but not in Samoa : reflections on Margaret Mead's legacy for western liberal feminism / Louise M. Newman
"A world made safe for differences" : Ruth Benedict's The chrysanthemum and the sword / Christopher Shannon
White maternity, rape dreams, and the sexual exile in A rap on race / Jean Walton
Of feys and culture planners : Margaret Mead and purposive activity as value / Gerald Sullivan
The lady of the chrysanthemum : Ruth Benedict and the origins of The chrysanthemum and the sword / Nanako Fukui
Ruth Benedict's obituary for Japanese culture / Douglas Lummis
The parable of Manus : utopian change, American influence, and the worth of women / Margaret M. Caffrey
Imagining the South Seas : Margaret Mead's Coming of age in Samoa and the sexual politics of paradise / Sharon Tiffany
Symbolic subordination and the representation of power in "Margaret Mead and Samoa" / Angela Gilliam
Misconceived configurations of Ruth Benedict / Pauline Kent
Margaret Mead : anthropology's liminal figure / Nancy Lutkehaus
"It is besides a pleasant English word" : Ruth Benedict's concept of patterns revisited / Judith Modell
On the political anatomy of Mead-bashing, or re-thinking Margaret Mead / Virginia Yans.