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Gods of the Upper Air Charles King
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In Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, King prepares a 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 society began to question the basic ways of understanding other cultures and themselves.
“This book is about the women and men who found themselves on the front lines of the greatest moral battle of our time,” King writes, “the struggle to prove that – despite differences of skin color, gender, ability or custom – humanity is one undivided thing.”
