Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women.(Review)

From: The Women's Review of Books | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

By Hilary Lapsley. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, 416 pp., $34.95 hardcover.

Margaret Mead, next to Eleanor Roosevelt the most famous woman in her day, had three husbands, many lovers of both sexes, and a lifelong friendship with Ruth Benedict, colleague and fellow anthropologist. The subject of this book is their friendship, their love; it startles with its disclosure of how readily women's love for one another thrived in those years. Mead said of Benedict: "When she died, I had read everything she had ever written, and she had read everything I had ...

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