Reading Benedict / Reading Mead: Feminism, Race, and Imperial Visions (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)

Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, towering figures in American anthropology, here receive close examination from a variety of standpoints: the history of science, racial theory, feminism, and colonialism. A powerful collection from a strong list of contributors, the volume provides a useful and provocative introduction to the work of Mead and Benedict.Reading Benedict / Reading Mead: Feminism, Race, and Imperial Visions (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History), was published 2005 under ISBN 9780801879746 and ISBN 0801879744.