Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
by
Lois W. Banner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the...