Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land

By Margaret M. Caffrey

Book Overview

Poet, anthropologist, feminist -- Ruth Benedict was all these and much more. Born in the last years of the Victorian era, she came of age during the Progressive years and participated in inaugurating the modern era of American life. This book provides an intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an important and remarkable woman.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292746555
• ISBN13: 9780292746558
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"