Introduction : Being and becoming Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead / Dolores Janiewski and Lois W. Banner -- Woven lives, raveled texts : Benedict, Mead, and representational doubleness / Dolores Janiewski -- "The bo-cu plant" : Ruth Benedict and gender / Lois W. Banner -- Margaret Mead, the Samoan girl and the flapper : geographies of selfhood in Coming of age in Samoa / Maureen Molloy -- Coming of age, but not in Samoa : reflections on Margaret Mead's legacy for western liberal feminism / Louise M. Newman -- "A world made safe for differences" : Ruth Benedict's The chrysanthemum and the sword / Christopher Shannon -- White maternity, rape dreams, and the sexual exile in A rap on race / Jean Walton -- Of feys and culture planners : Margaret Mead and purposive activity as value / Gerald Sullivan -- The lady of the chrysanthemum : Ruth Benedict and the origins of The chrysanthemum and the sword / Nanako Fukui -- Ruth Benedict's obiturary for Japanese culture / Douglas Lummis -- The parable of Manus : utopian change, American influence, and the worth of women / Margaret M. Caffrey -- Imagining the South Seas : Margaret Mead's Coming of age in Samoa and the sexual politics of paradise / Sharon Tiffany -- Symbolic subordination and the representation of power in "Margaret Mead and Samoa" / Angela Gilliam -- Misconceived configurations of Ruth Benedict / Pauline Kent -- Margaret Mead : anthropology's liminal figure / Nancy Lutkehaus -- "It is besides a pleasant English word" : Ruth Benedict's concept of patterns revisited / Judith Modell -- On the political anatomy of Mead-bashing, or re-thinking Margaret Mead / Virginia Yans.
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New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
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