A woman's struggle in academic psychology (1936-2001).

Abstract

Tracy S. Kendler's strong desire to get a college education had to overcome economic hardships of the Great Depression and a mother's conviction that finding a suitable husband was more important. Solomon Asch at Brooklyn College, by scholarly example, encouraged her to seek a career in psychology. At the University of Iowa she studied with both Kurt Lewin and Kenneth Spence and finally opted to conduct a research program, ultimately on cognitive development, within a neobehavioristic methodological orientation. Being married to academic psychologist Howard H. Kendler, and a mother of 2 sons, created problems in fashioning an independent academic career, but persistence and research productivity, sometimes a result of collaborative efforts with her husband, finally led to a distinguished career.

Women in child development: Themes from the SRCD Oral History Project.

“…Told to concentrate on her duties as a wife to fellow student Howard, Kendler remained on the sidelines of research throughout graduate school, being denied, as was at least one other interviewee, opportunities for funding through research assistantships and positions in labs related to their field. A complete account of Kendler's professional experiences is available in a biographical article edited by her husband, published after she passed away in 2001 (Kendler, 2003).…”

La historia de la psicología en clave crítica. Juicios y prejuicios en el análisis de la psicología de la “mujer universitaria” en Argentina a comienzos del siglo XX

“…En algunos trabajos incluso se observó la relación entre feminismo y psicología elucidando los encuentros y desencuentros entre ambos y la mirada sobre la -mujer‖ y el -varón‖ que tuvo y tiene la psicología con su consecuente poder disciplinador e incluso performativo (García Dauder 2010b;Kendler, 2003;Pujal Llombart y Amigot Leache, 2010;Rutherford, Vaughn-Blount, y Ball, 2010;Saavedra y Nogueira, 2006;Shields, 2007). En otros trabajos sensibles a la categoría género, entendida como un conjunto de prácticas interrelacionadas que en un momento histórico definen lo masculino y lo femenino estructurando relaciones de poder (Scott, 1993), se ha indagado la relación de la psicología con la política y la transmisión de valores.…”