Reminiscences of Emily Hartshorne Mudd : oral history, 1974.

Biographical Note

Counselor, educator, researcher; interviewee married Stuart Mudd.

Scope and Contents

Family background, education, marriage, children; pioneer work in development of professional marriage counseling; development of sex research in relation to marriage counseling; reform of abortion laws; Marriage Council of Philadelphia, founding, 1933, Director, 1936-37; founding member, President, American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors; professor, University of Pensylvania Medical School; trip to Soviet Union, 1945-46; work with government agencies on sex education and research; impressions of Robert L. Dickinson, Clarence Gamble, Virginia Johnson, Alfred Kinsey, Sophia Kleegman, William Masters, Abraham Stone, Hannah Stone.

Subjects

• Abortion--Law and legislation.
• Interviews.
• Marriage counseling.
• Mudd, Emily Hartshorne.
• Oral histories.
• Sex educators--Interviews.
• Sex instruction.
• Sexology--Research.
• Women executives--Interviews.

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