Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas
by Esther Newton
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A collection of essays by a pioneering queer anthropologist.Tags
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Esther Newton really is amazing. I came to her work through the Cherry Grove, Fire Island history, and was so excited that I dug out some of her other anthropology work. This great set of essays lays out her approaches and thinking in anthropology and other matters.
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Esther Newton is currently Term Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, and Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Kempner Distinguished Professor at Purchase College, SUNY. She is the auditor of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas, published by Duke University Press, and Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in show more America, coauthor of Womenfriends: A Soap Opera, and coeditor of Amazon Expedition: A Lesbian Feminist Anthology. show less
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- Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, LGBTQ+, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 305.9 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity People by occupation and miscellaneous social statuses
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- HQ76.3 .U5 .N49 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life Homosexuality. Lesbianism
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