Male and Female (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Mead
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Sociology, Anthropology
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Children, Gender roles, Self, Pregnancy, Human behavior, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Biology or biologists, Oceania
The Work
In Male and Female, Margaret Mead, an anthropologist, psychologist, author, lecturer, and associate curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, employed the knowledge that she gained in her many field trips to the South Pacific to show the roles that have been played by men and women in different cultures. She starts her book by reporting on societies in which sexual intercourse is considered delightful and those in which it is regarded as a necessary evil; societies in which men envy women and try to emulate their roles and a society in...
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