Each of the three societies that Mead studied -- the Arapesh, the Mundugumor, and the Tchambuli -- had very different conceptions of what was expected of women and men. ...(Mead's results suggest that) culture is an important -- if not the sole -- factor in shaping one's gender presentation. (p. 97,98)From A World Full of Women (Ward, 1996, p. 30, 38, 49):Many of us who teach gender turn to this