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Lois Banner reads from her new book "Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle."
Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher.
They became lovers – though both married – and pioneered in the then male-dominated discipline of anthropology. They championed racial and sexual equality and cultural relativity despite the generally racist, xenophobic and homophobic tenor of their era.
With unprecedented access to the complete archives of the two women—including hundreds of letters opened to scholars in 2001—Banner examines the impact of their difficult childhoods and the relationship between them in the context of their circle of family, friends, husbands, lovers and colleagues, as well as the calamitous events of their time.
Described as “exceptional” by Women's Review of Books, the book will be available for purchase at the reading as well as through the USC Pertusati Bookstore.
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