On Creating a Usable Culture : : Margaret Mead and the Emergence of American Cosmopolitanism /

On Creating a Usable Culture : : Margaret Mead and the Emergence of American Cosmopolitanism / / Maureen A. Molloy.

Margaret Mead's career took off in 1928 with the publication of Coming of Age in Samoa. Within ten years, she was the best-known academic in the United States, a role she enjoyed all of her life. In On Creating a Usable Culture, Maureen Molloy explores how Mead was influenced by, and influenced...

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Molloy, Maureen A.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 10 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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