Male And Female
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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What does it truly mean to be male or female — and how much of that meaning is shaped by biology, and how much by culture? In Male and Female, the pioneering American anthropologist Margaret Mead draws on her landmark fieldwork across seven Pacific Island societies to present a sweeping examination of sex, gender, and the roles men and women inhabit in cultures vastly different from the Western world. With remarkable ethnographic precision, she chronicles how societies construct masculinity and femininity, arguing that the traits we assume to be innately gendered are, in fact, largely the product of cultural conditioning rather than biological destiny. A landmark work in both anthropology and gender studies, Male and Female stands as a bold intellectual challenge to mid-twentieth-century assumptions about human nature and sexuality. Mead's prose is accessible yet rigorous, grounding broad anthropological theory in vivid, human detail — making the exotic familiar and the familiar suddenly strange. First published in 1949, the book remains a foundational text for anyone seeking to understand how societies create, enforce, and sometimes transcend the boundaries between the sexes. It is a work that continues to ask the questions we have never quite finished answering.
Author: Margaret Mead
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it truly mean to be male or female — and how much of that meaning is shaped by biology, and how much by culture? In Male and Female, the pioneering American anthropologist Margaret Mead draws on her landmark fieldwork across seven Pacific Island societies to present a sweeping examination of sex, gender, and the roles men and women inhabit in cultures vastly different from the Western world. With remarkable ethnographic precision, she chronicles how societies construct masculinity and femininity, arguing that the traits we assume to be innately gendered are, in fact, largely the product of cultural conditioning rather than biological destiny. A landmark work in both anthropology and gender studies, Male and Female stands as a bold intellectual challenge to mid-twentieth-century assumptions about human nature and sexuality. Mead's prose is accessible yet rigorous, grounding broad anthropological theory in vivid, human detail — making the exotic familiar and the familiar suddenly strange. First published in 1949, the book remains a foundational text for anyone seeking to understand how societies create, enforce, and sometimes transcend the boundaries between the sexes. It is a work that continues to ask the questions we have never quite finished answering.