Read Gods of Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century - Charles King | ePub Online

A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his misfit circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 30s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves.At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that