Untold Lives: The First Generation of American Women Psychologists

Elizabeth Scarborough

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Difference Being A Woman Made

Chapter 1. The Quest for Graduate Education: Mary Calkin’s Contest with Harvard

University

Chapter 2. The Family Claim: Ties that Bound Milicent Shinn

Chapter 3. The “Intolerable Choice:: Ethel Puffer’s Struggle with the Marriage versu \s

Career Dilemma

Chapter 4. Meritocracy in Science: Margaret Flay Washburn’s Use of the Myth

Chapter 5. “A Little Hard on Ladies”:Christine Ladd-Franklin’s Challenge to Collegial

Exclusion

Part II: Collective Portrait of the First Generation

Chapter 6: Origins, Education, and Life-Styles

Chapter 7: Careers and Contributions

Chapter 8: To the Present

Appendix A. Cameo’s Portraits of Selected Women

- Kate Gordon Moore

- Lilian Jane Martin

- Naomi Norsworthy

- Francis Hall Rousmaniere Dewing

- Theodate Louise Smith

- Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley

Appendix B. Published Sources of Biographical Information

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

• Psychology
• Women's Studies

About the Author

Elizabeth Scarborough is Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York, Fredonia. Lauren Furumoto is Professor of Psychology at Wellesley College.

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