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.