Helen Bradford Thompson: Forgotten Pioneer in Gender Studies

Biographical Bytes from Bala: Laurel Hill West Stories #009

Helen Bradford Thompson turned the understanding of gender roles on its head.  Her groundbreaking work at the turn of the 20th century, summarized in her PhD thesis "The Mental Traits of Sex," exploded on the psychology scene like nothing that had come before it.  And yet the name Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley was little remembered for decades, only recently being rediscovered because of the blossoming of feminist studies.  She is interred at Laurel Hill West. 

 

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