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Male and Female A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World
Mead, Margaret Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York, USA Date Written: 01/01/1949 Year Published: 1949 Pages: 445pp Resource Type: Book
Mead draws on an account of sex and gender roles among the Pacific peoples to provide insight into the sexual patterns at work in the United States.
Abstract: Mead starts with an explanation of her own approach to this study of the sexes. She then employs knowledge gained on her many field trips to the South Pacific--to Bali, to Samoa, to New Guinea and the Admiralty Islands--to show what very different roles have been played by men and women in other cultures. She reports societies where sexual intercourse is considered delightful--and to those where it regarded as a necessary eveil; societies where men envy and try to emulate the roles of women--and a society where a woman's place is not in the home; societies where childbearing is hateful--and societies where children are prized possessions.
From this account of sex roles among the Pacific peoples, her book proceeds to a provocative analysis of the sexual patterns at work in the United States.
[From publisher]
Table of Contents:
Introduction for the Edition of 1967 Introduction of the Edition of 1962
Part One: Introductory I. The Significance of the Questions We Ask II. How an Anthropologist Writes
Part Two: The Ways of the Body III. First Learnings IV. Even-handed, Money-minded, and Womb-envying Patterns V. Fathers, Mothers, and Budding Impulses VI. Sex and Temperament VII. Basic Regularities in Human Sex Development
Part Three: The Problems of Society VIII. Rhythm of Work and Play IX. Human Fatherhood is a Social Invention X. Potency and Receptivity XI. Human Reproductivity
Part Four: The Two Sexes in Contemporary America XII. Our Complex American Culture XIII. Expected Childhood Experience XIV. Pre-courtship Behaviour and Adult Sex Demands XV. Sex Achievement XVI. Each Family in a Home of Its Own XVII. Can Marriage be for Life? XVIII. To Both Their Own
Notes to Chapters Appendix I: Background and Bibliographical Material on the Seven Pacific Island Cultures: Samoa; Manus; Arapesh; Mundugumor; Iatmul; Tchambuli; Bali Appendix II: The Ethics of Insight-giving Appendix III: Sources and Experience in Our American Culture Index of Personal Names Index of Subjects
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