Secondary Sources on Margaret Mead

Cassidy, Robert. Margaret Mead: A Voice for the Century. New York: Universe Books, 1982.

Foerstel, Lenora and Angela Gilliam. Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire, and the South Pacific. Philadelphia: Temple UP,1992

Freeman, Derek. The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1998.

Grinager, Patricia. Uncommon Lives: My Lifelong Friendship with Margaret Mead. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Grosskurth, Phyllis. Margaret Mead. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.

Howard, Jane. Margaret Mead, A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

Lapsley, Hilary. Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women. Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Mark, Joan T. Margaret Mead: Coming of Age in America. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

McDowell, Nancy. The Mundugumor: From the Field Notes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

Moss, Allyn. Margaret Mead: Shaping a New World. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Press, 1963.

Works by Mead

Mead, Margaret. And Keep Your Powder Dry; An Anthropologist Looks at America. New York: Morrow, 2000.

Mead, Margaret. Anthropologists and What They Do. New York: F. Watts, 1965.

Mead, Margaret. Anthropology, a Human Science: Selected Papers, 1939-1960. Princeton, New Jersey: Van Nostrand, 1964.

Mead, Margaret. Aspects of the Present. New York: Morrow, 1980.

Mead, Margaret. Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years. New York: Morrow, 1972.

Mead, Margaret. The Changing Cultural Patterns of Work and Leisure. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Manpower Administration, 1967.

Mead, Margaret. The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe. New York: Columbia UP, 1932.

Mead, Margaret. Childhood in Contemporary Cultures. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth For Western Civilization. New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1973.

Mead, Margaret. Continuities in Cultural Evolution. New Haven, London: Yale UP, 1964.

Mead, Margaret. Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples. Boston: Beacon Press, 1961.

Mead, Margaret. A Creative Life for Your Children. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Children's Bureau.

Mead, Margaret. Culture and Commitment: the New Relationships Between the Generations in the 1970s. New York: Columbia UP, 1978.

Mead, Margaret. Family. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Mead, Margaret. From the South Seas; Studies of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies. New York: W. Morrow & Company, 1939.

Mead, Margaret. The Golden Age of American Anthropology. New York: G. Braziller, 1960.

Mead, Margaret. Growing Up in New Guinea; A Comparative Study of Primitive Education. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.

Mead, Margaret. Growth and Culture; A Photographic Study of Balinese Childhood. New York: Putnam, 1951.

Mead, Margaret. Kinship in the Admiralty Islands. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002.

Mead, Margaret. Letters From the Field 1925-1975. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

Mead, Margaret. Male and Female, A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World. New York: W. Morrow, 1949.

Mead, Margaret. Margaret Mead: The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975. The Hague: Mouton, 1976.

Mead, Margaret. New Lives For Old: Cultural Transformation - Manus, 1928-1953. New York: Morrow, 1966.

Mead, Margaret. Primitive Heritage; An Anthropological Anthology. New York: Random House, 1953.

Mead, Margaret. A Rap on Race. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971.

Mead, Margaret. Some Personal Views. New York: Walker, 1979.

Mead, Margaret. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.

Mead, Margaret and Rhoda Metraux, eds. The Study of Culture at a Distance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953.

Books By the Contributors

Bateson, Mary Catherine. Full Circles Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition. New York: Random House, 2000.

Bateson, Mary Catherine. With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. New York: W. Morrow, 1984

Di Leonardo, Micaela. Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Ginsburg, Faye. Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.

Lutkehaus, Nancy. Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Martin, Emily. Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in America from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.

Martin, Emily. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

Morgan, Marcyliena. Reading Between the Lines: Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Newton, Esther. Cherry Grove, Fire Island: 60 Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

Newton, Esther. Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2000.

Rapp, Rayna. Articulating Hidden Histories. Berkeley, CA. University of California Press, 1995.

Rapp, Rayna. Conceiving the New World Order. Berkeley, Ca. University of California Press, 1995.

Rapp, Rayna. Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Rapp, Rayna, ed. Promissory Notes. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1989.

Shapiro, Judith. Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers. New York: Artist's Rights Society, 2001.

Sharp, Lesley. The Possessed and the Dispossesed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.

Sharp, Lesley. The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.