{"product_id":"intertwined-lives-margaret-mead-ruth-benedict-and-their-circle-9780679776123","title":"Intertwined Lives Margaret Mead Ruth Benedict and Their Circle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the then male-dominated discipline of anthropology. They championed racial and sexual equality and cultural relativity despite the generally racist, xenophobic, and homophobic tenor of their era. Mead’s best-selling \u003ci\u003eComing of Age in Samoa\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) and \u003ci\u003eSex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies\u003c\/i\u003e (1935), and Benedict’s\u003ci\u003e Patterns of Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(1934),\u003ci\u003e Race \u003c\/i\u003e(1940),\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Chrysanthemum and the Sword \u003c\/i\u003e(1946), were landmark studies that ensured the lasting prominence and influence of their authors in the field of anthropology and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith unprecedented access to the complete archives of the two women—including hundreds of letters op","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862892216663,"sku":"9780679776123","price":15.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780679776123.jpg?v=1759919014","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intertwined-lives-margaret-mead-ruth-benedict-and-their-circle-9780679776123","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}