＂Banner has intertwined not only the lives of Mead and Benedict,
but all the assumptions about women and sex in the first half of
the twentieth century. The history of anthropology has never been
so plainly set forth. An amazing, invaluable, unprecedented book--a
delight to read.＂
--Carolyn Heilbrun, author of Writing A Woman''s Life
＂A most amazing, magnificent, and very moving chronicle of Lesbian
brilliance. Lois Banner continues to break down bigoted barriers
and write real history.＂
內容簡介：
A 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
Coming of Age in Samoa 1928 and Sex and Temperament in
Three Primitive Societies 1935, and Benedict’s Patterns of
Culture 1934, Race 1940, and The Chrysanthemum
and the Sword 1946, were landmark studies that ensured the
lasting prominence and influence of their authors in the field of
anthropology and beyond.
With unprecedented access to the complete archives of the two
women—including hundreds of letters opened to scholars in 2001—Lois
Banner examines the impact of their difficult childhoods and the
relationship between them in the context of their circle of family,
friends, husbands, lovers, and colleagues, as well as the
calamitous events of their time. She shows how Benedict
inadvertently exposed Mead to charges of professional incompetence,
discloses the serious errors New Zealand anthropologist Derek
Freeman made in his famed attack on Mead’s research on Samoa, and
reveals what happened in New Guinea when Mead and colleagues
engaged in a ritual aimed at overturning all gender and sexual
boundaries.
In this illuminating and innovative work, Banner has given us the
most detailed, balanced, and informative portrait of Mead and
Benedict—individually and together—that we have had.
From the Hardcover edition.
關於作者：
Lois Banner has taught at Rutgers University, Princeton
University, the University of Scranton, Hamilton College, the
University of Maryland, and George Washington University. She is
currently Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University
of Southern California and is a past president of the American
Studies Association and the Pacific Coast Branch, American
Historical Association. Her previous books include American
Beauty; In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality; and
Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women.
She and her husband live in Santa Monica, California.
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