Sex and Temperament
Subtitle: In Three Primitive Societies
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780060934958
First sentence: In the 1930s Margaret Mead ushered into American intellectual circles a powerful "way of seeing" as she called it, the cross-cultural perspective.
Description: Focusing on three tribes from New Guinea, the author advances the theory that many so-called masculine and feminine characteristics are not based on fundamental sex differences, but reflect the cultural conditioning of different societies.