Untold lives : the first generation of American women psychologists /
The presence of women psychologists has largely been blotted out of historical accounts of the discipline. "Untold Lives" explores why this has occurred and champions the cause of writing women into history by reconstructing the lives of twenty-five pioneering women psychologists in Americ...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
1987
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The difference being a woman made. The quest for graduate education : Mary Calkins' contest with Harvard University
- The family claim : ties that bound Milicent Shinn
- The "intolerable choice" : Ethel Puffer's struggle with the marriage versus career dilemma
- Meritocracy in science : Margaret Floy Washburn's use of the myth
- "A little hard on ladies" : Christine Ladd-Franklin's challenge to collegial exclusion
- pt. 2. Collective portrait of the first generation. Origins, education, and life-styles
- Careers and contributions
- To the present
- Appendix A. Cameo portraits of selected women. Kate Gordon Moore
- Lillien Jane Martin
- Naomi Norsworthy
- Frances Hall Rousmaniere Dewing
- Theodate Louise Smith
- Helen Bradford Thompson Wooley