Male and female

By:

Mead, Margaret

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: England; Penguin Books; 1981Edition: Study of the sexes iDescription: 413pISBN:

140205756

Subject(s):

Natural - History

DDC classification:

305.24 MEA

Summary: Margaret Mead is well known for her out- standing studies of primitive societies. Here she compares the sexual attitudes of Pacific cislanders with those of modern Americans, in a fascinating attempt to answer the question: "How are men and women to think about their maleness and their femaleness in this twentieth century?' She shows that, while sex may be screamed at us from newspapers, TV screens, and advertisements, it is a guilty sex for we have lost beyond reclaim the instinctive body- awareness of the naked South-Sea islander. Lack of preparedness may prevent is from realizing our adult sexual potentialities; it may also make our society the poorer if the two sexes are not contributing their full, distinctive qualities to its total culture. 'Certainly one of the most important contributions to contemporary thought which has appeared in the last decade' - Geoffrey Gorer

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Margaret Mead is well known for her out-
standing studies of primitive societies. Here
she compares the sexual attitudes of Pacific
cislanders with those of modern Americans, in a
fascinating attempt to answer the question:
"How are men and women to think about their
maleness and their femaleness in this twentieth
century?' She shows that, while sex may be
screamed at us from newspapers, TV screens,
and advertisements, it is a guilty
sex for we
have lost beyond reclaim the instinctive body-
awareness of the naked South-Sea islander.
Lack of preparedness may prevent is from
realizing our adult sexual potentialities; it may
also make our society the poorer if the two
sexes are not contributing their full, distinctive
qualities to its total culture.
'Certainly one of the most important
contributions to contemporary thought which
has appeared in the last decade' - Geoffrey
Gorer

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