I've noticed that all the psychology I study deals with male psychologists/philosophers. Was there any female influence on the field of psychology before Mary Calkin? If so, what books might I find the information in?

-- Beth E. Haselton (smileereturns@aol.com), November 05, 2002

Answers

The following should give you a good start:

Stevens, Gwendolyn & Gardner, Sheldon (1982). The women of psychology. Vol. I. Pioneers and innovators. Vol. II. Expansion and refinement. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman.

O'Connell, Agnes N. & Russo, Nancy Felipe, Eds. (1980). Eminent women in psychology: Models of achievement. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 144pp.

Furumoto, Laurel & Scarborough, Elizabeth (1986). Placing women in the history of psychology. American Psychologist, 4, 35-42.

Scarborough, Elizabeth & Furumoto, Laurel. (1987). Untold lives: The first generation of American women psychologists. New York: Columbia University Press.

O’Connell, Agnes N. & Russo, Nancy Felipe. (1983). Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology. Vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press.

O’Connell, Agnes N. & Russo, Nancy Felipe. (1988). Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology. Vol. 2. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

O’Connell, Agnes N. & Russo, Nancy Felipe. (Eds). (1990). Women in psychology: A bio-bibliographic sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press.

Columns on significant women are published regularly in the APA Division 35 newsletter. Some of these are available online at http://www.psych.yorku.ca/femhop/

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), November 06, 2002.