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100 1 $aBlum, Deborah,$d1954-$eauthor.
245 10$aComing of age :$bthe sexual awakening of Margaret Mead /$cDeborah Beatriz Blum.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bThomas Dunne Books,$c2017.
300 $ax, 322 p. :$billustration ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [309]-312) and index.
505 0 $aShooting star -- One for my lady love -- Girls, unmarried as yet -- A course in old maids -- The promise of his birth -- A glass full of cyanide -- Paper dolls -- Hell's Kitchen -- A cottage on Cape Cod -- A woman of spare effects -- The Rideau Canal -- They dance for rain -- Her head was spinning -- Guardian angel -- The old king must die -- A second honeymoon -- Ariel -- Hotel Pennsylvania - - A need for secrecy -- Quicksilver love -- The telegram - - A ceremonial virgin -- A bonfire on the beach -- A practical joke -- Stranger from another planet -- The arena has always been about blood -- A hopeless muddle.
520 $aThe startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead, whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time. The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two-year-old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart, and on the verge of graduating from college. Seemingly a conventional young lady, she marries but shocks friends when she decides to keep her maiden name. After starting graduate school at ColumbiaUniversity, she does the unthinkable: she first enters into a forbidden relationship with a female colleague, then gets caught up in an all-consuming and secret affair with a brilliant older man. As her sexual awakening continues, she discovers it is possible to be in love with more than one person at the same time. While Margaret's personal explorations are just beginning, her interest in distant cultures propels her into the new field of anthropology. Ignoring the constraints put on women, she travels alone to a tiny speck of land in the South Pacific called Samoa to study the sexual behavior of adolescent girls. Returning home on an ocean liner nine months later, she has a chance encounter that changes the course of her life forever. Now, drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs, Deborah Beatriz Blum reconstructs these five transformative years of Margaret Mead's life before she became famous, revealing the story that she hid from the world--during her lifetime and beyond.--Jacket.
600 10$aMead, Margaret,$d1901-1978.
650 0$aWomen anthropologists$zUnited States$vBiography.