Composing a Further Life

Books, 1960), p. 16.

IX. What We Pass On

1.
Thinking AIDS
(Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1988).
2. Richard Goldsby,
Race and Races
(New York: Macmillan, 1971).
3. Mary Catherine Bateson,
Composing a Life
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989).
4. Erik H. Erikson,
Childhood and Society
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1950), pp. 268–69. Erikson is quoting Edmond Rostand,
“Mille petits dégoûts de soi, dont le total/Ne fait pas un remords, mais une gêne obscure,” Cyrano de Bergerac
, act V, v. 5.

X. Shaping the Future

1. Richard Dawkins,
The Selfish Gene
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
2. Jane Fonda,
My Life So Far
(New York: Random House, 2005).
3. Jane Fonda,
Jane Fonda’s Workout Book
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981). The video appeared in 1982 and was followed by some twenty other videos between then and 1995, many of which have been reissued as DVDs and in various collections.
4. Donald Winnicott,
Mother and Child: A Primer of First Relationships
(New York: Basic Books, 1957).
5.
grok:
to understand profoundly through intuition or empathy. Coined by Robert Heinlein in
Stranger in a Strange Land
, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/grokking .
6. Since the debate about Freud’s revised interpretation, triggered by Jeffrey Masson (
The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory
. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984), it has become clear that although some of the cases of very young children reported by Freud might have been based on fantasy or suggestion, substantial numbers of girls and boys do suffer sexual abuse by trusted adults, especially family members.

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Mary Catherine Bateson received her undergraduate degree from Radcliffe College (BA 1960) and her Ph.D. from Harvard (1963). She has taught at Harvard, Northeastern, Amherst, and Spelman College, as well as overseas in the Philippines and Iran. From 1987 to 2002 she was Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Anthropology and English at George Mason University, spending half her time writing in New Hampshire and becoming Professor Emerita in 2002. Since the fall of 2006 she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Aging and Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College and a special consultant to the Lifelong Access Libraries Initiative of the Libraries for the Future. Until recently she has been President of the Institute of Intercultural Studies in New York City. She divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Hancock, New Hampshire, and has a married daughter and two grandsons. She is the author of
Composing a Life; With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson; Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way; Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition;
and
Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery
.