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| + | '''Margaret Mead''' (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American [[Cultural anthropology|cultural anthropologist]] who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name="libraryofcongress"/> She earned her bachelor's degree at [[Barnard College]] in [[New York City]] and her MA and PhD degrees from [[Columbia University]]. Mead served as President of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] in 1975.<ref>{{cite web |title=AAAS Presidents |url=https://www.aaas.org/leadership/presidents |website=aaas.org |publisher=AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE |accessdate=13 October 2018}}</ref> |
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| + | Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and [[Western culture]] and was often controversial as an academic.<ref name=SciAmeri>{{cite web |last=Horgan |first=John |title=Margaret Mead's bashers owe her an apology |url=http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2010/10/25/margaret-meads-bashers-owe-her-an-apology/ |publisher=Scientific America}}</ref> Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s [[sexual revolution]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Popova |first1=Marie |title=Legendary Anthropologist Magaret Mead on the Fluidity of Human Sexuality in 1933 |url=https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/06/margaret-mead-homosexuality/ |website=brainpickings}}</ref> She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within a context of traditional Western religious life. |
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Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s.[1] She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University. Mead served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975.[2]
Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic.[3] Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution.[4] She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within a context of traditional Western religious life.
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"it is true, as Professor Goldberg points out, that all the claims so glibly made for societies ruled by women are nonsense...we have no reason to believe that they have ever existed."
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