I have been using Kendler's History book to teach a first year graduate course in History of Psych, but last year's students roasted me for choosing a book that completely ignored women's contributions to the field. Can anyone suggest a book that deals with this both fairly, and accurately.

Thanks,

Lynn Nadel Arizona

-- Lynn Nadel (nadel@u.arizona.edu), April 02, 2001

Answers

Ray Fancher's _Pioneers of Psychology_ (3rd ed., Norton, 1996)has 4+ pp. on Mary Whiton Calkins, 2 pp. on Christine Ladd-Franklin, and Margaret Floy Washburn, and mentions of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Karen Horney.

Perhaps better still would be to add to your required readings some chapters from:

Scarborough, E., & Furumoto, L. (1987). _Untold lives: The first generation of American women psychologists_. New York: Columbia.

Also, "Classics in the History of Psychology" has begun to assemble a Special Collection edited by Katharine S. Milar (Pres.-elect of the History Divison of the APA) on women and psychology. (http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Special/Women/)

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), April 02, 2001.

I agree with Chris's suggestions. I think the text by Wayne Viney & Brett King does an excellent job; also the text by James Goodwin. Do think about using some of the primary sources available on Classics in the History of Psychology site. I hope to have contextual material about them posted soon. Kathy Milar

-- Katharine S. Milar (kathym@earlham.edu), April 03, 2001.

I recommend Thorne, B. M. & Henley, T. B. (1997). Connections in the History and Systems of Psychology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

-- Matthew Barnes (mvbarnes@yorku.ca), April 10, 2001.

Wayne Viney and Brett King discuss numerous female psychologists as well as women from the larger history of psychology including such individuals as Theana and Myia (early Pythagoreans), Hypatia of Alexandria (375-415), Heloise (1098-1164), and Oliva Sabuca (1562-?) among others.

-- Doug Woody (woodywd@uwec.edu), April 19, 2001.

Also worth looking at is JS Bohan (Ed, 1992) 'Seldom Seen, Rarely Heard: Women's Place in Psychology.'

-- Geoff Bunn (g.bunn@nmsi.ac.uk), April 24, 2001.

I don't have a text to recommend, but my latest writing on this is an article on women's contributions to the psychology and religion field, which will be published in the Journal of Psychology and Christianity in June 2001.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@fuller.edu), May 23, 2001.