On Creating a Usable Culture: Margaret Mead and the Emergence of American Cosmopolitanism 9780824863777
Margaret Mead’s career took off in 1928 with the publication of Coming of Age in Samoa. Within ten years, she was the be
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 .Introduction
2. The Problem of American Culture
3. The “Jungle Flapper” Civilization, Repression, and the Homogenous Society
4. “Lords of an Empty Creation” Masculinity, Puritanism, and Cultural Stagnation
5. “Every Woman Deviating from the Code” Cultural Lag, Moral Contagion, and Social Disintegration
6. “Maladjustment of a Worse Order” Temperament, Psychosexual Misidentifi cation, and the Refuge of Private Life
7. On Creating a Usable Culture
Notes
References
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 .Introduction
2. The Problem of American Culture
3. The “Jungle Flapper” Civilization, Repression, and the Homogenous Society
4. “Lords of an Empty Creation” Masculinity, Puritanism, and Cultural Stagnation
5. “Every Woman Deviating from the Code” Cultural Lag, Moral Contagion, and Social Disintegration
6. “Maladjustment of a Worse Order” Temperament, Psychosexual Misidentifi cation, and the Refuge of Private Life
7. On Creating a Usable Culture
Notes
References
Index
- Author / Uploaded
- Maureen A. Molloy
