Margaret Mead : the making of an American icon - Lutkehaus, Nancy (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008)
Mead as modern woman -- Images of the mature Mead -- Mead as anthropologist: "Sex in the South Seas" ; "To study cannibals" ; "To find out how girls learn to be girls" -- Mead and the image of the anthropologist -- Mead as scientist -- Mead as public intellectual and celebrity -- The posthumous Mead, or Mead, the public anthropologist.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-360) and index.
Keywords: Mead, Margaret, -- 1901-1978.; Women anthropologists -- United States -- Biography