Classics in the History of Psychology
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Christopher D. Green
York University, Toronto, Ontario
ISSN 1492-3713

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An Historical View of Some Early Women Psychologists and the Psychology of Women

Edited by Katharine S. Milar
Earlham College

Primary source documents posted in 2001.
Milar's essays posted January 2002.

General Introduction

Section Ia: Psychological Characteristics of Men and Women

Section Ib: The Variability Hypothesis

Section II: Education, Employment and Social Roles

About the Editor

Section Ia: Psychological Characteristics of Men and Women

Introduction to Section Ia

Hollingworth, Leta S. (1914). Functional periodicity. Contributions to Education, No. 69. New York: Columbia University Press.

Hollingworth, Leta S. (1916). Social devices for impelling women to bear and rear children. American Journal of Sociology, 22, 19-29.

Hollingworth, Leta S. (1922). Differential action upon the sexes of forces which tend to segregate the feebleminded. Journal of Abnormal Psychology & Social Psychology, 17, 35-57.

Thompson, Helen Bradford. (1903). The mental traits of sex.

Woolley, Helen Thompson. (1910). A review of the recent literature on the psychology of sex. Psychological Bulletin, 7, 335-342.

Section Ib: The Variability Hypothesis

Introduction to Section Ib

Jastrow, Joseph. (1891). A study in mental statistics. The New Review, 5, 559-568.

Nevers, Cordelia C. & Calkins, Mary W. (1895). Dr. Jastrow on community of ideas of men and women. Psychological Review, 2, 363-367.

Jastrow, Joseph. (1896). Community of ideas of men and women. Psychological Review, 3, 68-71.

Calkins, Mary Whiton. (1896). Community of ideas of men and women. Psychological Review, 3, 426-430.

Section II: Education, Employment and Social Roles

Introduction to Section II (forthcoming)

Gordon, Kate. (1905). Wherein should the education of a woman differ from that of a man. School Review, 13, 789-794.

Hall, G. S. (1904/1937). Adolescent girls and their education. From Adolescence (Vol. 2, Chapter 17).

Howes, Ethel Puffer (1922, April). Accepting the universe. Atlantic Monthly, 129, 444-453.

Ladd-Franklin, C. (1904, February). Endowed professorships for women. Publications of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Series III(a), 53-61.

Ladd-Franklin, C. (1908, February). Report of the committee on the endowment of fellowships. Publications of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Series III (17), 143-146.

Shinn, Milicent Washburn. (1895). The marriage rate of college women. Century Magazine, 50, 946-948.