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A handy compendium of current writing on Benedict and Mead—enormously informative, stimulating, and intellectually sound.
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Introduction: Being and Becoming Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead
Part I: Becoming Benedict, Becoming Mead
Chapter 1. Woven Lives, Raveled Texts: Benedict,Mead, and Representational Doubleness
Chapter 2.
Introduction: Being and Becoming Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead
Part I: Becoming Benedict, Becoming Mead
Chapter 1. Woven Lives, Raveled Texts: Benedict,Mead, and Representational Doubleness
Chapter 2. "The Bo-Cu Plant": Ruth Benedict and Gender
Chapter 3. Margaret Mead, the Samoan Girl and the Flapper: Geographies of Selfhood in Coming of Age in Samoa
Part II: Erasures and Inclusions
Chapter 4. Coming of Age, but Not in Samoa: Reflections on Margaret Mead's Legacy for Western Liberal Feminism
Chapter 5. "A World Made Safe for Differences": Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Chapter 6. White Maternity, Rape Dreams, and the Sexual Exile in A Rap on Race
Part III: Imperial Visions
Chapter 7. Of Feys and Culture Planners:Margaret Mead and Purposive Activity as Value
Chapter 8. The Lady of the Chrysanthemum: Ruth Benedict and the Origins of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Chapter 9. Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese Culture
Chapter 10. The Parable of Manus: Utopian Change, American Influence, and the Worth of Women
Part IV: Echoes and Reverberations
Chapter 11. Imagining the South Seas:Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa and the Sexual Politics of Paradise
Chapter 12. Symbolic Subordination and the Representation of Power in "Margaret Mead and Samoa"
Chapter 13. Misconceived Configurations of Ruth Benedict
Part V: Re-Thinking Benedict and Mead
Chapter 14. Margaret Mead: Anthropology's Liminal Figure
Chapter 15. "It is besides a pleasant English word"—Ruth Benedict's Concept of Patterns Revisited
Chapter 16. On the Political Anatomy of Mead-bashing, or Re-thinking Margaret Mead
Notes
Contributors
Index
Illustrations