Male and Female by Margaret Mead SIGNED gender studies FIRST EDITION

Description: Margaret Mead, Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World (1949). This copy is the First Edition, SIGNED by Margaret Mead on the title page. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 477 pages. The book is clean and the dust jacket is in nice condition, protected by a plastic wrapper. The binding is secure, but there is a seam split between pages 476 and 477 as shown. In these days of tumult over gender issues, Margaret Mead's careful, objective approach to the subject is worth another read. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was a cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University. Mead served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975. Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic. Her reports detailing the attitudes toward sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within the context of Western cultural traditions. Margaret Mead was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1979. The citation read: "Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our father was a bibliophile who collected rare books, letters, and ephemera for more than 60 years. For now and into the foreseeable future, we will be listing rare paper items from his estate. Take a look at all our items for sale. We combine shipping.

Price: 299 USD

Location: Slingerlands, New York

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