{"product_id":"reading-benedict-reading-mead-feminism-race-and-imperial-visions-new-studies-in-american-intellectual-and-cultural-history-9780801879746","title":"Reading Benedict  Reading Mead Feminism Race and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNewman, University of Florida; Dolores E. Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington; Christopher Shannon, University of Notre Dame; Gerald Sullivan, University of Notre Dame; Sharon Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Jean Walton, University of Rhode Island; Virginia Yans, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A handy compendium of current writing on Benedict and Mead - enormously informative, stimulating, and intellectually sound.\" - Howard Brick, Washington University, St. Louis\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Being and Becoming Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Becoming Benedict, Becoming Mead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Woven Lives, Raveled Texts: Benedict,Mead, and Representational Doubleness\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. \"The Bo-Cu Plant\": Ruth Benedict and Gender\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Margaret Mead, the Samoan Girl and the Flapper: Geographies of Selfhood in \u003ci\u003eComing of Age in Samoa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Erasures and Inclusions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Coming of Age, but Not in Samoa: Reflections on Margaret Mead's Legacy for Western Liberal Feminism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. \"A World Made Safe for Differences\": Ruth Benedict's\u003ci\u003e The Chrysanthemum and the Sword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. White Maternity, Rape Dreams, and the Sexual Exile in A Rap on Race\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Imperial Visions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Of Feys and Culture Planners:Margaret Mead and Purposive Activity as Value\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Lady of the Chrysanthemum: Ruth Benedict and the Origins of\u003ci\u003e The Chrysanthemum and the Sword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese Culture\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. The Parable of Manus: Utopian Change, American Influence, and the Worth of Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Echoes and Reverberations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Imagining the South Seas:Margaret Mead's \u003ci\u003eComing of Age in Samoa\u003c\/i\u003e and the Sexual Politics of Paradise\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Symbolic Subordination and the Representation of Power in \"Margaret Mead and Samoa\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Misconceived Configurations of Ruth Benedict\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Re-Thinking Benedict and Mead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Margaret Mead: Anthropology's Liminal Figure\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. \"It is besides a pleasant English word\"—Ruth Benedict's Concept of Patterns Revisited\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. On the Political Anatomy of Mead-bashing, or Re-thinking Margaret Mead\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527619912023,"sku":"9780801879746","price":46.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801879746.jpg?v=1731868575","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-benedict-reading-mead-feminism-race-and-imperial-visions-new-studies-in-american-intellectual-and-cultural-history-9780801879746","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}