This title won the Judy Grahn Award for Best Book of the Year in Lesbian Nonfiction.
HILARY LAPSLEY is a psychologist and writer who until recently taught women's studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
"Anyone who has ever taken an introduction to cultural anthropology course should enjoy this biography. . . . This account traces the career of Mead as she popularizes ethnographies with her commentary on the people and cultures of the South Pacific and that of Benedict as she fights the misogyny of academia. . . . An easily read and enjoyable narrative."--Booklist "Portrays with originality and provocative detail the development of anthropology, from its earliest days. . . . Once [Mead and Benedict] have met, Lapsley's story becomes a powerful reminder of how friendship and love between women once flourished."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Women's Review of Books "A fascinating, detailed account. . . . What is especially significant about this book is that it approaches Mead and Benedict from a new perspective, one informed by women's studies, feminist psychology, and lesbian studies. . . . The reader gains a wealth of knowledge about the work, relationships, and lives of two of the most influential women in 20th-century social science."--Journal of Lesbian Studies "Lapsley's book is not simply about two innovative, 'self-actualized' women but also about the 'kinship of women, ' its loyalties, its commitments, and the courage required to sustain it, which nurtures collegiality and synergistic collaboration. The professional consequences of this kinship are seldom explored in print. Mead and Benedict encouraged each other for more than 30 years. That such focus, attention, and regard should be thought peculiar, require courage, or be cloaked in secrecy is a question Lapsley implicitly raises in a beautifully documented and crafted text."--Choice "Lapsley's bookflows along like a well-written novel, complete with heroines and villains, well-developed characters, plots and subplots. It includes descriptions and analyses that anthropologists and psychologists will welcome, as will feminist and gender study readers."--Nathalie Woodbury, Anthropology Newsletter "Lapsley casts a fresh eye on a complex friendship that lasted 25 years. . . . Feminist scholars, anthropologists, and students of that post-WWI era when gender roles were in motion will appreciate this complex tale."--Kirkus Reviews
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