IN THIS ISSUE
Welcome
by Judith Shapiro
Guest Editor’s Note
by Lesley A. Sharp
Part 1
Continuing controversies
Mead as Public Intellectual
by Nancy Lutkehaus
Introduction to Margaret Mead Made Me Gay*
by Esther Newton
Hard Women, Soft Politics and Radical Chic in Hip-Hop
by Marcyliena Morgan
“Now Watch this Very Carefully . . . “
The Ironies and Afterlife of Margaret Mead’s Visual Anthropology
by Faye Ginsburg
The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
by Elaine Charnov
Part 2
Anthropology meets the public
Margaret Mead vs. Tony Soprano*
by Micaela di Leonardo
Mead, Menstruation, and Biological Reductionism
by Emily Martin
After Mead
by Rayna Rapp
Mead, Myth, & Public Anthropology
by Bridget Hayden
Looking Ahead
by Mary Catherine Bateson