{"id":4768,"date":"2016-04-22T10:40:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2016-04-22T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:40:17","slug":"analects-of-the-core-mead-on-the-sexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2016\/04\/22\/analects-of-the-core-mead-on-the-sexes\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Mead on the sexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The knowledge that the personalities of the two sexes are socially produced is congenial to every programme that looks forward to a planned order of society. It is a two-edged sword that can be used to hew a more flexible, more varied society than the human race has ever built, or merely to cut a narrow path down which one sex or both sexes will be forced to march, regimented, looking neither to the right nor to the left.<\/p>\n<p>From p.310, in the conclusion to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Mead\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Mead&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Mead#Sex_and_Temperament_in_Three_Primitive_Societies_.281935.29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sex and Temperament in\u00a0<\/em><\/a><span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Mead#Sex_and_Temperament_in_Three_Primitive_Societies_.281935.29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Three Primitive Societies<\/em><\/a> (1935)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The knowledge that the personalities of the two sexes are socially produced is congenial to every programme that looks forward to a planned order of society. It is a two-edged sword that can be used to hew a more flexible, more varied society than the human race has ever built, or merely to cut a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,1851,4716,1906,48661,5165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4769,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}