With a Daughter’s Eye (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: The United States and the islands of Bali and Samoa
- Principal Characters: Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography
- Subjects: Culture, Child rearing or parenting, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Science or scientists, Lesbianism or lesbians, Fathers, Human behavior, Anthropology or anthropologists
- Locales: United States, Samoa, Bali
Form and Content
Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson (who prefers the name Catherine) wrote With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson from her unique perspective as the couple’s only child. For her sources, she deliberately ignored her parents’ voluminous papers and published works, just as she studiously avoided interviewing any of their colleagues and friends, relying instead on her own memories. Much in the first four chapters, during which she describes her early childhood, is therefore impressionistic. Nevertheless, she recounts...
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