References for women in psychology plus some anthropology and sociology/social work. The highlighted books/articles (in bold) contain a great deal of information.

• Abir-Am, P. G., & Outram, D. (1987). Uneasy careers and intimate intimate lives: Women in science, 1789-1979. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

• Alexander, F., Eisenstein, S., & Grotjahn, M. (Eds.). (1966). Psychoanalytic pioneers. New York: Basic Books.

• Anastasi, A. (1980). Anne Anastasi. In G. Lindzey (Ed.). A history of psychology in autobiography, Vol. 7 (pp. 1-37). San Francisco: Freeman.

• Anderson, J. E. (1933). June Etta Downey (1875-1932). American Journal of Psychology, 45, 362-363.

• Bachtold, L. M., & Werner, E. E. (1970). Personality profiles of gifted women: Psychologists. American Psychologist, 25, 234-243.

• Bashaw, W. L., & Bashaw, C. T. (1988). Thelma Gwinn Thurstone: Career strategies and contributions to measurement. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 12, 341-356.

• Bateson, M. C. (1984). With a daughter's eye: A memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. New York: Morrow.

• Benjamin, L. T., Jr. (1975). The pioneering work of Leta Hollingworth in the psychology of women. Nebraska History, 56, 493-505.

• Benjamin, L. T., Jr. (1980). Women in psychology: Biography and autobiography. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 140-144.

• Bernstein, M. D., & Russo, N. F. (1974). The history of psychology revisited: or, up with our foremothers. American Psychologist, 29, 130-134.

• Binion, R. (1968). Frau Lou: Nietzsche's wayward disciple. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

• Bohan, Janis S. (1990). Contextual history: A framework for re-placing women in the history of psychology. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 14, 213-228.

• Boring, E. G. (1951). The woman problem. American Psychologist, 6, 679-682.

• Browne, W. J. (1969). A psychiatric study of the life and work of Dorothea Dix. American Journal of Psychiatry, 122, 335-341.

• Bryan, A. I. (1946). Women in American psychology: Factors affecting their careers. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series 2, 9, 19-23.

• Bryan, A. I., & Boring, E. G. (1944). Women in American psychology: Prolegomenon. Psychological Bulletin, 44, 447-454.

• Bryan, A. I., & Boring, E. G. (1946). Women in American psychology: Statistics from the OPP questionnaire. American Psychologist, 1, 71-79.

• Bryan, A. I., & Boring, E. G. (1947). Women in American psychology: Factors affecting their professional careers. American Psychologist, 2, 3-20.

• Bryson, R. B., Bryson, J. B., Licht, M. H., & Licht, B. G. (1976). The professional pair: Husband and wife psychologists. American Psychologist, 31, 10-16.

• Buckley, Nellie l. (1982). Women psychoanalysts and the theory of feminine development: a study of Karen Horney, Hele Deutsch and Marie Bonaparte. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Chicago.

• Burlingham, M. J. (1988). The last Tiffany: A biography of Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham. New York: Atheneum.

• Caffrey, M. M. (1989). Ruth Benedict: Stranger in this land. Austin: University of Texas Press.

• Calkins, M. W. (1930). Mary Whiton Calkins. In C. Murchison (Ed.), A history of psychology in autobiography, Vol. 2 (pp. 31-62). Worcester, MA: Clark University Press.

• Calkins, R. (1931). In memoriam: Mary Whiton Calkins, 1863-1930. Boston: Merrymount Press.

• Dallenbach, K. M. (1940). Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939). American Journal of Psychology, 53, 1-5.

• Deegan, Mary Jo (Ed.) (1991). Women in Sociology: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

• deFord, M. A. (1948). Psychologist unretired: The life pattern of Lillian J. Martin. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

• Denmark, F. L. (1980). Psyche: From rocking the cradle to rocking the boat. American Psychologist, 35, 1057-1065.

• Denmark, F. L. (1983). Integrating the psychology of women into introductory psychology. In C. J. Scheirer & A. M. Rogers (Eds.), The G. Stanley Hall lecture series, Volume 3 (pp. 33-73). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

• Denton, L. (1987, October). The rich life and busy times of Anne Anastasi. APA Monitor, pp. 10-11.

• Deutsch, H. (1973). Confrontations with myself. New York: Norton.

• Drell, M. J. (1982). Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: A pioneer in child analysis. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 42, 139-150.

• Duster, Alfreda, ed. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

• Dyer, R. (1983). Her father's daughter: The work of Anna Freud. New York: Aronson.

• Eberts, C. G., & Gray, P. H. (1982). Evaluating the historical treatment of female psychologists of distinction using citation analysis and textbook coverage. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 20, 7-10.

• Evans, R. B. (1986). Edna Heidbredder: 1890-1985. Cheiron Newsletter, 13, 5-6.

• Fenton, M. (1943). Lillien Jane Martin (1851-1943). American Journal of Psychology, 50, 440-442.

• Fine, R. (1985). Anna Freud (1985-1982). American Psychologist, 40, 230-232.

• Furumoto, L. (1979). Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930): Fourteenth president of the American Psychological Association. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 15, 346-356.

• Furumoto, L. (1980). Edna Heidbreder: Systematic and cognitive psychologist. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 94-102.

• Furumoto, L. (1980). Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930). Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 55-68.

• Furumoto, L. (1984). Review of A. N. O'Connell & N. F. Russo (Eds.), Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology. Sex Roles, 4, 558-562.

• Furumoto, L. (1984). Review of Women scientists in America: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 20, 238-240.

• Furumoto, L. (1985, December). Placing women in the history of psychology course. Teaching of Psychology, 12, 203-206.

• Furumoto, L. (1987). On the margins: Women and the professionalization of psychology in the United States, 1890-1940. In M. G. Ash & W. R. Woodward (Eds.), Psychology in twentieth century thought and society (pp. 93-113). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Furumoto, L. (1988). Shared knowledge: The experimentalists, 1904-1929. In J. G. Morawski (Ed.), The rise of experimentation in American psychology (pp. 94-113). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

• Furumoto, L., & Scarborough, E. (1986). Placing women in the history of psychology: The first American women psychologists. American Psychologist, 41, 35-42.

• Furumoto, L., & Scarborough, E. (1987). Placing women in the history of comparative psychology: Margaret Floy Washburn and Margaret Morse Nice. In E. Tobach (Ed.), Historical perspectives and the international status of comparative psychology (pp. 103-117). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

• Fynne, R. J. (1924). Montessori and her inspirers. New York: Longmans, Green.

• Gacs, U., Khan, A., McIntyre, J., & Weinberg, R. (Eds.). (1988). Women anthropologists. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

• Garrison, D. (1981). Karen Horney and feminism. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 6, 672-691.

• Gavin, E. A. (1987). Prominent women in psychology, determined by ratings of distinguished peers. Psychotherapy in Private Practice, 5, 53-68.

• Gibson, E. J. (1980). Eleanor J. Gibson. In G. Lindzey (Ed.), A history of psychology in autobiography, Vol. 7 (pp. 238-271). San Francisco: Freeman.

• Goodman, E. (1979, December). Margaret Floy Washburn: "A complete psychologist." APA Monitor, pp. 3, 16.

• Goodman, E. S. (1980). Margaret F. Washburn (1871-1939) First woman Ph.D. in psychology. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 69-80.

• Gornick, V. (1983). Women and science: Portraits from a world in transition. New York: Simon & Schuster.

• Green, J. (1987). Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930). In L. S. Grinstein & P. J. Campbell (Eds.), Women of mathematics (pp. 121-128). New York: Greenwood.

• Grosskurth, P. (1986). Melanie Klein: Her world and her work. New York: Knopf.

• Grosskurth, P. (1989). Margaret Mead. New York: Penguin.

• Guthrie, R. (1976). Even the rat was white. New York: Harper & Row.

• Harris, D. B. (1959). Florence L. Goodenough (1886-1959). Child Development, 30, 305-306.

• Havighurst, R. J. (1974). Charlotte Buhler: 1893-1974. Human Development, 17, 377-378.

• Heider, F. (1983). The life of a psychologist: An autobiography. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press.

• Heidbreder, E. (1972). Mary Whiton Calkins: A discussion. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 8, 56-68.

• Henle, M. (1987). Edna Heidbreder (1890-1985). American Psychologist, 42, 94-95.

• Higgins, F. C. (1918). The life of Naomi Norsworthy. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

• Hollingworth, H. L. (1943/1990). Leta Stetter Hollingworth [L. T. Benjamin, Jr., & S. D. Shields, Eds.]. Bolton, MA: Anker.

• Hollingworth, L. S. (1940). Prairie years. New York: Columbia University Press.

• Horney, K. (1980). The adolescent diaries of Karen Horney. New York: Basic Books.

• Howard, J. (1984). Margaret Mead: A life. New York: Simon & Schuster.

• Hughes, Helen McGill (1975). Women in Academic Sociology, 1927-1975. Sociological Focus 8. 215-22.

• Isaac, S. (1961). Obituary: Melanie Klein, 1882-1960. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2, 270-281.

• Kassinove, H., & Yuker, H. E. (1989). Julia Randall Vane (1918-1988). American Psychologist, 44, 1327.

• Kelman, H. (1954). In memoriam, Karen Horney, M. D. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 14, 5-7.

• Kimmel, E. (1976). Contributions to the history of psychology, XXIV: Role of women psychologists in the history of psychology in the south. Psychological Reprots, 38, 611-618.

• King, P. H. M. (1983). The life and work of Melanie Klein in the British Psychoanalytic Society. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 64, 251-260.

• Kramer, R. (1976). Marie Montessori: A biography. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

• Lengermann, P. & Niebrugge-Brantley, J. (1996). Early Women Sociologists. In Classical Sociology, by George Ritzer, pp. 294-328. New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Lengermann, P., Miebrugge-Brantley, J. (1998). The women founders: Sociology and social theory 1830-1930. New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Lindzey, G. (Ed.). (1974). A history of psychology in autobiography: Vol. 6. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

• Lindzey, G. (Ed.). (1980). A history of psychology in autobiography: Vol. 7. San Francisco: Freeman.

• Lindzey, G. (Ed.). (1989). A history of psychology in autobiography: Vol. 8. Palo Alto, Stanford University Press.

• Lipsitt, L. P. (1990). Myrtle B. McGraw (1899-1988). American Psychologist, 45, 977.

• Livingstone, A. (1984). Lou Andreas-Salome'. New York: State Mutual Book.

• Logan, D. D. (1980). Mary Cover Jones: Feminine as asset. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 103-115.

• Lustman, S. L. (1967). The scientific leadership of Anna Freud. American Psychoanalytic Association Journal, 15, 810-827.

• Maccoby, E. E. (1989). Eleanor E. Maccoby. In G. Lindzey (Ed.), A history of psychology in autobiography, Vol. 8 (pp. 290-335). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

• MacLean, G., & Rappen, U. (1990). Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: Her life and work. New York: Routledge.

• Macurdy, G. H. (1940). Memories of Margaret F. Washburn. Vasssar Alumnae Magazine, 25, 3-4.

• Marschak, M. (1960). One year among the behavioral scientists: In memory of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. Psychiatry, 23, 303-309.

• Marshall, H. E. (1937). Dorothea Dix, A forgotten samaritan. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

• Martin, Lillien J. (1927). Round the world with a psychologist. San Francisco: Stacey.

• Martin, M. F. (1940). The psychological contributions of Margaret Floy Washburn. American Journal of Psychology, 53, 7-18.

• McDonald, Lynne (1994). The Women Founders of the Social Sciences. Ottawa, Canada: Carleton University Press.

• Mead, M. (1974). Ruth Benedict. New York: Columbia University Press.

• Mead, M. (1972). Blackberry winter: My earlier years. New York: Morrow.

• Mead, M. (1974). Margaret Mead. In G. Lindzey (Ed.), A history of psychology in autobiography, Vol 6. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

• Mednick, M. T., & Russo, N. F. (1983). Carlyn Wood Sherif: Brilliant scholar, gifted teacher, cherished friend, 1922-1982. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 8, 3-8.

• Menaker, E. (1989). Appointment in Vienna: An American psychoanalyst recalls her student days in pre-war Austria. New York: St. Martin's.

• Mitchell, M. B. (1951). Status of women in the American Psychological Association. American Psychologist, 6, 193-201.

• Mitchell, S. A. (1988). Kleinian nachmusik [Review of Melanie Klein: Her world and her work]. Contemporary Psychology, 33, 855-856.

• Modell, J. S. (1984). Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Moore, K. G. (1944). Eleanor Harris Rowland Wembridge (1883-1944). Psychological Review, 51, 326-327.

• Murphy, G. (1943). Service of women psychologists to the war: Foreword. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 7, 249-251.

• Mussen, P., & Eichorn, D. (1988). Mary Cover Jones (1896-1987). American Psychologist, 43, 818.

• O'Connell, A. N. (1980). Karen Horney: Theorist in psychoanalysis and feminine psychology. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 81-93.

• O'Connell, A. N., & Russo, N. F. (Eds.). (1980). Eminent women in psychology: Models of achievement. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 5-144 [whole issue].

• O'Connell, A. N., & Russo, N. F. (1983). Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology: Vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press.

• O'Connell, A. N., & Russo, N. F. (1988). Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology: Vol. 2. New York: Erlbaum

• O'Connell, A. N., & Russo, N. F. (Eds.). (1990). Women in psychology: A bio-bibliographic sourcebook. New York: Greenwood.

• Over, R. (1983). Representation, status, and contributions of women in psychology: A bibliography. Psychological Documents, 13(2), MS 2473.

• Peters, U. (1985). Anna Freud: A life dedicated to children. New York: Schocken Books.

• Pfeiffer, E. (Ed.). (1972). Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salome': Letters. New York: Norton.

• Pillsbury, W. B. (1940). Margaret Floy Washburn, 1871-1939. Psychological Review, 47, 99-109.

• Poffenberger, A. T. (1940). Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939). American Journal of Psychology, 53, 299-230.

• Pratola, S. (1974). Up with our foremother. American Psychologist, 29, 780.

• Quinn, S. (1987). A mind of her own: The life of Karen Horney. New York: Summit.

• Reinharz, Shulamit (1989). Teaching the history of women in Sociology: or, Dorothy Swaine Thomas, Wasn’t she the woman married to William I?. American Sociologist, 20, 87-94.

• Reinharz, Shulamit (Ed.). (1993). A Contextualized Chronology of Women’s Sociological Work. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press.

• Roazen, P. (1985). Helene Deutsch: A psychoanalyst's life. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday.

• Rubins, J. L. (1978). Karen Horney: Gentle rebel of psychoanalysis. New York: Dial Press.

• Russo, N. F. (1990). Barbara Strudler Wallston: Pioneer of contemporary feminist psychology. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 14, 2.

• Russo, N. F., & Denmark, F. L. (1987). Contributions of women to psychology. Annual Review of Psychology, 38, 279-298.

• Russo, N. F., & O'Connell, A. (1980). Models from our past: Psychology's foremothers. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 11-54.

• Russo, N. F., Olmedo, E., Stapp, J., & Fulcher, R. (1981). Women and minorities in psychology. American Psychologist, 36, 1315-1363.

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

• Sears, R. (1979). Maude Merrill James (1888-1978). American Psychologist, 34, 176.

• Segal, H. (1979). Melanie Klein. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

• Sexton, V. S. (1969). Women's accomplishments in American psychology: A brief survey. Pakistan Journal of Psychology, 2, 29-35.

• Sexton, V. S. (1974). Women in American psychology: An overview. Journal of International Understanding, 9, 66-77.

• Shaffer, L. S., & Shields, S. A. (1984). Carolyn Wood Sherif (1922-1982). American Psychologist, 39, 176-178.

• Shakow, D. (1974). Grace Helen Kent. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 10, 275-280.

• Shields, S. A. (1975). Ms. Pilgrim's progress: The contributions of Leta Stetter Hollingworth to the psychology of women. American Psychologist, 30, 852-857.

• Simpson, E. L. (1980). Occupational endeavour as life history: Anne Roe. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 116-126.

• Standing, E. M. (1984). Marie Montessori. New York: New American Library.

• Stepansky, P. E. (Ed.). (1988). The memoirs of Margaret Mahler. New York: Free Press.

• Sterling, Dorothy. Black Foremothers. New York: The Feminist Press, 1988.

• Stevens, G., & Gardner, S. (1982). The women of psychology: Vol. I. Pioneers and innovators. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman.

• Stevens, G., & Gardner, S. (1982). The women of psychology: Vol. II. Expansion and refinement. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman.

• Stevens, G., & Gardner, S. (1985). Psychology of the scientist: LIV. Permission to exel: A preliminary report of influences on eminent women psychologists. Psychological Reports, 57, 1023-1026.

• Strunk, O., Jr. (1972). The self-psychology of Mary Whiton Calkins. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 8, 196-203.

• Thompson, N. L. (1987). Early women Psychoanalysts. International Review of Psycho-Analysis, 14, 391-407.

• Tiffany, F. (1980). Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.

• Trautman, M. B. (1977). In memoriam: Margaret Morse Nice. The Auk, 94, 430-441.

• Uhrbrock, R. S. (1933). June Etta Downey (July 12, 1875-October 11, 1932). Journal of General Psychology, 9, 351-364.

• Updike, D. B. (Ed.). (1931). In memoriam: Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930). Boston: Merrymount Press.

• Wallston, B. S., Cavallaro, S. A., Berger, M., Hodges, W., & Stevens, J. H., Jr. (1980). Susan W. Gray. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 127-139.

• Washburn, M. F. (1932). Some recollections. In C. Murchison (Ed.), A history of psychology in autobiography, Vol. 2 (pp. 333-358). Worcester, MA: Clark University Press.

• Weigert, E. (1961). In memoriam: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889-1957). Psychiatry, 24, 187-196.

• Westkoff, M. (1986). The feminist legacy of Karen Horney. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

• Wilson, D. C. (1975). Stranger and traveler: The story of Dorothea Dix, American reformer. Boston: Little, Brown.

• Wolpe, J. (1988). Mary Cover Jones (1896-1987). Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 19, 3-4.

• Woodworth, R. S. (1930). Christine Ladd-Franklin. Science, 71, 307.

• Woodworth, R. S. (1949). Margaret Floy Washburn. In National Academy of Sciences biographical memoirs, Vol. 25 (273-295). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.

• Yost, E. (1949). Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Partners for life. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. (of course, the film Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel chronical their lives)

• Young-Bruehl, E. (1988). Anna Freud: A biography. New York: Summit.

• Zusne, L. (1984). Biographical dictionary of psychology. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

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