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-- Profiles the lives and careers of American women whose accomplishments have contributed to our society
-- Fully illustrated with photographs and paintings

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School Library Journal Review

Mead's unconventional life is depicted in an accurate and readable manner in this balanced portrayal of her personal life and career. The book's major flaw is the lack of maps showing where Mead's field studies were conducted. The Epsteins' She Never Looked Back: Margaret Mead in Samoa (Coward, 1980; o.p.) focuses on a specific aspect of her career and is for a younger audience; Church's Margaret Mead: Student of the Global Village (Greenhaven, 1976; o.p.) and Jacqueline Ludle's Margaret Mead (Watts, 1983) are comparable in terms of readability, accuracy, and photographic illustration. Only the Ludle book includes maps of Mead's travels. A useful source for school reports and a worthwhile purchase for libraries, especially those that have a special interest in women's history or in feminist studies. --April L. Judge, Thousand Oaks Library, CA bpp, pl. send type, waxy, and five sets of galleys, thanks Junior High Up (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 6-10. A popular subject of juvenile biographies, this recent sketch of Mead emphasizes professional accomplishments over personality. Beginning with her pioneering fieldwork in Samoa, the book backtracks to her childhood in an intellectual family, which set the stage for her later career choice. Focusing on each of her major field trips--with a description of the relevant personal, scholarly, and scientific circumstances--Ziesk emphasizes Mead's enormous contributions to a developing discipline. The author concludes with a balanced look at the posthumous controversy involving Derek Freeman, the contemporary anthropologist who challenged Mead's widely disseminated conclusion that culture, rather than biology, determines human behavior. Mature readers seeking greater insight into Mead's spirited character will be well served by Jane Howard's lively Margaret Mead: A Life [BKL Je 15 84], listed in the bibliography. An index, a chronology (useful for book reports), and a plethora of clearly reproduced black-and-white photographs are also included. --Julie Corsaro