Male and Female [Audio Cassette]

Margaret Mead (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995

In Male and Female, Margaret Mead applies the findings of her landmark studies on relationships between the sexes to American society.

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About the Author

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) began her remarkable career when she visited Samoa at the age of twenty-three, which led to her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa. She went on to become one of the most influential women of our time, publishing some forty works and serving as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History as well as president of major scientific associations. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom following her death in 1978. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Audio Scholar (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879557274
• ISBN-13: 978-1879557277
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,578,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #27 in Books > Books on Cassette > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > General
  • #28 in Books > Books on Cassette > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read but must take consideration, July 8, 2010

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Oriana Havlicek "Oriana The Turg" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Male and Female (Paperback)

What we have to remember about the anthropology books from the 1950s is that most of the information is objective based off of the anthropologist lives. So yes, Mead is very detailed and slightly biased because she has her own personal (western) views. However, this book is a link from gender-essentialism to modern views of how we see the male and female sexes as they exist today.

Long and detailed read- Yes

Great understanding of Male and Female Sexes- Not updated but good overall.

Subjective/Objective ratio- great for her time, sightly different now. (Read with an objective mindset and consider when this was published)

Margaret Mead- Must Know person when dealing with gender and anthropology.

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars review, December 17, 2008

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This review is from: Male and Female (Paperback)

The whole book could have been written in half of its size. Not very well written due to being too wordy, hard to follow.

1 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars M. Mead, March 8, 2007

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This review is from: Male and Female (Paperback)

Everyons should read M. Mead's research. Her research explains many issues that remain current topics of contention.