Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.— Margaret This newsletter was very hard to write because Margaret Mead is endlessly quotable. Throughout her seven decades of groundbreaking anthropological field work, she studied sexual freedom in South Pacific cultures, authored dozens of books on Western family life, traveled the world researching gender politics and drew controversy for her then-radical opinions on women's liberation.
A Woman to Know: Margaret Mead
A Woman to Know: Margaret Mead
A Woman to Know: Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.— Margaret This newsletter was very hard to write because Margaret Mead is endlessly quotable. Throughout her seven decades of groundbreaking anthropological field work, she studied sexual freedom in South Pacific cultures, authored dozens of books on Western family life, traveled the world researching gender politics and drew controversy for her then-radical opinions on women's liberation.