Coming of age : the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Blum, Deborah, 1954- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2017. ©2017
Description:	x, 322 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Mead, Margaret, -- 1901-1978. Mead, Margaret, -- 1901-1978. Women anthropologists -- United States -- Biography. Women anthropologists. United States. Biographies. Biographies. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11294778

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9781250055729 1250055725
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-312) and index.
Summary:	"The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead, whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time. The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two-year-old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart, and on the verge of graduating from college. Seemingly a conventional young lady, she marries but shocks friends when she decides to keep her maiden name. After starting graduate school at Columbia University, she does the unthinkable: she first enters into a forbidden relationship with a female colleague, then gets caught up in an all-consuming and secret affair with a brilliant older man. As her sexual awakening continues, she discovers it is possible to be in love with more than one person at the same time. While Margaret's personal explorations are just beginning, her interest in distant cultures propels her into the new field of anthropology. Ignoring the constraints put on women, she travels alone to a tiny speck of land in the South Pacific called Samoa to study the sexual behavior of adolescent girls. Returning home on an ocean liner nine months later, she has a chance encounter that changes the course of her life forever. Now, drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs, Deborah Beatriz Blum reconstructs these five transformative years of Margaret Mead's life before she became famous, revealing the story that she hid from the world--during her lifetime and beyond."--Jacket.

Table of Contents:

Author's Note
1. Shooting1 Star
2. One for My Lady Love
3. Girls, Unmarried as Yet
4. A Course in Old Maids
5. The Promise of His Birth
6. A Glass Full of Cyanide
7. Paper Dolls
8. Hell's Kitchen
9. A Cottage on Gape God
10. A Woman of Spare Effects
11. The Rideau Canal
12. They Dance for Rain
13. Her Head Was Spinning
14. Guardian Angel
15. The Old King Must Die
16. A Second Honeymoon
17. Ariel
18. Hotel Pennsylvania
19. A Need for Secrecy
20. Quicksilver Love
21. The Telegram
22. A Ceremonial Virgin
23. A Bonfire on the Beach
24. A Practical Joke
25. Stranger from Another Planet
26. The Arena Has Always Been About Blood
27. A Hopeless Muddle
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Coming of age : the sexual awakening of Margaret Mead /

Similar Items