with Guest Filmmaker Virginia Yans-McLaughlin

Using archival footage, stills, interviews and dramatic re-creations, this portrait of Margaret Mead weaves together a story of an anthropologist adventurer and international celebrity. The film tells how she first gained attention in the 1920s and 30s with her pioneering studies of sexuality in Samoa and New Guinea. By age 34 she had published three best-sellers and changed the public understanding of what it means to be male or female. The film deals with the controversies as well as the achievements of her life. By Virginia Yans-McLaughlin.

Reception in Goldwyn Smith Foyer Following the Screening

This screening is made possible with the support of The Department of Anthropology and The Department of Women's Studies.

Also: On Monday, March 8, Professor Yans-McLaughlin will give a lecture," On Writing and Filming a Woman's Life: The Case of Margaret Mead and a Historian."
12:15pm in Uris Hall Room 254.
Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program