Reference Information:
Title: Coming of Age in Samoa
Author: Margaret Mead
Editors: Williams Morrow and Company (1928)
Summary: In the eleventh chapter of Coming of Age in Samoa, Mead discusses "Girls in Conflict". This chapter focuses on delinquent and deviant behavior of the young women, which can have various levels of repercussions. In particular, women labeled thieves are generally ostracized.
Discussion: This chapter focused more on individual girls than the previous chapters, which was a nice change of pace.
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