Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies | Work by Mead

In Personality: Morphological (Body Type) Theories

In Her Book Sex and temperament in three primitive societies (1935), she showed that masculinity is not necessarily expressed through aggressiveness and that femininity is not necessarily expressed through passivity and acquiescence. These demonstrated variations raised questions about the relative roles of biology, learning, and cultural pressures in…

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