Description
Questionnaire masters, completed forms, correspondence, reports,
and other records from a 1977-78 study of "communication between mothers and
college-aged daughters on the subject of sexuality" undertaken by Marilyn Yalom, Suzanne
Estler, and Wenda Brewster at Stanford University's Center for Research on Women.
Questionnaires were completed by members of the class of 1954 at Stanford University and
Wellesley College and by members of the Stanford class of 1980. Collection also includes
miscellaneous papers of Yalom including correspondence, photographs, articles, and
biographical materials.
Background
Marilyn Yalom received her BA in French from Wellesley and her MA in German and French
from Harvard, completing a PhD in comparative literature at Johns Hopkins, 1963. She has
been affiliated with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford
University (formerly the Institute for Research on Women and Gender) since 1976.
Restrictions
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Availability
This collection is open for research.