Thursday, February 23, 2023

Blackberry Winter - Margaret Mead

"The tough treatment given us Professor Boas shook us up, prepared us for the unexpected, and be it said, the extremely difficult (558).  

From the Norton Book of Woman's Lives Phyllis Ross 

Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead 

Margaret Mead 
    In this passage, Margaret spends time remembering what she has been through and what has gotten her to where she is now. She seemed to have such a deep respect for the Samoa culture which inspired her, later on, to pursue this in her education. Throughout the reading, she displayed a lot of skills and knowledge that took her to a place where she was powerful. This differs from the other woman we have read this semester as women were oppressed greatly and given fewer responsibilities and taken less seriously. She even "dined on the admiral's flagship", which proved to the people in Samoa that she was of important stature. Since she was very driven and confident, she got to experience things women at this time never got to experience. 

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  1. savannah shockleyMarch 3, 2023 at 6:51 AM

    I found your perspective on this really interesting in regards to the other women we've read about. She had her own perspective and was not someone to just let people walk all over her. She wasn't going to let oppression/complacency stop her. Her professors literally told her that there was only one way of doing what she wanted to do, and she found other ways to go about it. This is interesting comparing that to the oppressed women we have read about because they all believed to a certain extent that they couldn't have that voice.

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