Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index.

"A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s -- a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves."--Publisher's description.