How a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex and gender in the Twentieth Century. by Charles King. Published 2019 – hard-cover book in our library. Mead stands out, especially for the links between her personal and professional lives. From young adulthood on, she was inclined toward polyamory, feeling cosseted and constrained by her culture’s […]

Revolutions are seldom the spontaneous mass upheaval of the downtrodden, provoked beyond endurance by their miserable condition, and the sexual revolution was certainly no exception in this respect. The revolution had its intellectual pro-genitors, as shallow, personally twisted, and dishonest a parade of people as one could ever wish to encounter. They were all utopians, […]