Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250055725 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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As her sexual awakening continues, she discovers it is possible to be in love with more than one person at the same time.While Margaret’s personal explorations are just beginning, her interest in distant cultures propels her into the new field of anthropology. After starting graduate school at Columbia University, she does the unthinkable: she first enters into a forbidden relationship with a female colleague, then gets caught up in an all-consuming and secret affair with a brilliant older man. The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time.The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart and on the verge of graduating from college. Ignoring the constraints put on women, she travels alone to a tiny speck of land in the South Pacific called Samoa to study the sexual behavior of adolescent girls. Seemingly a conventional young lady, she marries, but shocks friends when she decides to keep her maiden name. Returning home on an ocean liner nine months later, a chance encounter changes the course of her life forever.Now, drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs, Deborah Beatriz Blum reconstructs these five transformative years of Margaret Mead’s life, before she became famous, revealing the story that she hid from the world – during her lifetime and beyond.
As Blum makes clear, Mead’s greatest research subject may have been the enigma of her own desire.” Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She's Not There and Long Black Veil"Through Blum's narrative, Mead becomes more than a quotable female pioneer and transforms into a three-dimensional woman." Library Journal (starred review)“Blum’s vivid and personal reimagining is an entertaining addition to the constellation of work on this important figure, giving insight into the vulnerable girl
DEBORAH BEATRIZ BLUM is the author of Bad Karma: A True Story of Obsession and Murder. For the last twenty years she’s written and directed documentaries for National Geographic, Discovery, and the History Channel.. She has been a writer, producer and director working in the film business for most of her adult life
"This book was a little slow at first but then" according to April. This book was a little slow at first but then it read more as a fiction novel than a biography. Well researched and interesting perspective on Margaret Mead's early life.. Rebel With A Cause Robert W Buck This book tackles the task of telling Margaret Mead's drive to be her own person in a world that frowned upon such drive and individualism from its women. She did not want to be a lost soul during the "Lost Generation." Instead, she wanted to live her life on her own terms. Her contributions to society are legendary. However, in this work, Deborah Blum does a beautiful job of weaving the remarkable story of this young woman's drive for personal fulfillment and . New Insights Mary Ann Abz Deborah Blum's book, Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margeret Mead, focuses on a pivotal time in Mead's life, before she became famous. All at once she was finishing college, marrying her childhood sweetheart, and forming bonds with new people who would drastically alter her world view. She hid the forbidden aspects of these relationships - guarding her secrets for her entire life - and yet their impact on her life and work was profound. Because the tell