Editing Ruth Benedict (section)

===Relationship with Margaret Mead===
Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict were two of the most influential and famous anthropologists of their time. Both got along well with their shared passion for each other's work and the sense of pride that they felt in being successful working women while that was still uncommon.<ref>Banner 2003: &nbsp;1</ref> They were frequently known to critique each other's work; they entered into a companionship that began through their work, but during its early period, it also had an erotic character.<ref name="MCBateson">Bateson 1984;{{rp|117–118}} Lapsley 1999</ref><ref>Lutkehaus 2008: 41, 79–81</ref><ref>Janiewski and Banner 2004: ix-xiiix</ref><ref name="maksel">Maksel 2004</ref> Both Benedict and Mead wanted to dislodge stereotypes about women that were widely believed during their time and to show people that working women could also be successful even though working society was seen as a man's world.<ref>Bateson 1984:117–118; Lapsley 1999</ref> In her memoir about her parents, ''With a Daughter's Eye'', Mead's daughter strongly implies that the relationship between Benedict and Mead was partly sexual.

In 1946, Benedict received the Achievement Award from the [[American Association of University Women]]. After Benedict died of a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in 1948, Mead kept the legacy of Benedict's work going by supervising projects that Benedict would have looked after and by editing and publishing notes from studies that Benedict had collected throughout her life.<ref name="maksel"/>