Guide to the Stanford University, Center for Research on Women, Female sexuality Project Records
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Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
Call Number: SC0829
Creator:
Yalom, Marilyn collector
Title: Stanford University, Center for Research on Women, female sexuality project records
Dates: 1973-1991
Physical Description:
3 Linear feet
Summary: 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.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
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Cite As
Stanford University, Center for Research on Women, Female Sexuality Project Records (SC0829). Dept. of Special Collections
and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
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.
Description of the Collection
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.
Access Terms
Stanford University. Class of 1954.
Stanford University. Class of 1980.
Wellesley College. Class of 1954.
Yalom, Marilyn collector
Mothers and daughters.
Women --Sexual behavior.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
M. Yalom – Correspondence 1986-87
Box 1, Folder 2
Marilyn Yalom: Curriculum Vitae, 1987-1991
Box 1, Folder 3
Course Evaluation: Marilyn Yalom
Box 1, Folder 4
Public Lectures: Marilyn Yalom, 1973-81
Box 1, Folder 5
Marilyn Yalom – Newspaper Clippings, 1983-86
Box 1, Folder 6
Post-Conference Letters (Poetry Conference), 1982
Box 1, Folder 7
Government-Corporate-Academia: Linkage Meeting 11/16/84
Box 1, Folder 8
West Coast Women Writers (conference and book), correspondence,
1980-83
Box 1, Folder 9
West Coast Women Writers, correspondence, 1980-84
Box 1, Folder 10
Victorian Women – Reviews
Box 1, Folder 11
Coming to Light – Reviews
Box 1, Folder 12
Coming to Light – Contract U. of Michigan Press
Box 1, Folder 13
SWOPSI – Winter 1977 Female Sexuality – Misc.
Box 1, Folder 15
“How Comfortable Are You Talking About Sex?” Questionnaire, completed
copies
Box 1, Folder 16
Master – Mother Questionnaire (as sent out 7&8/77) to Wellesley and
Stanford 1954
Box 1, Folder 19
Mother Questionnaire 3/77
Box 1, Folder 20
Proposal for Human Subjects Committee
Box 2, Folder 1
“Women of the Fifties: Their Past Sexual Experiences and Current Sexual
Attitudes in the Context of Mother-Daughter Relationships” [paper]
Box 2, Folder 2
“Where is the Sexual Revolution? A Study of Mother/Daughter
Communication and Generational Change”
Box 2, Folder 3
“What Ought to Be and What Was: Women’s Sexuality in the Nineteenth
Century” (by Carl Degler)
Box 2, Folder 4
“Courses on Women Spring 1978” –prepared by CROW [poster]
Box 2, Folder 5
SWOPSI Sponsor’s Statement and related papers (includes some
duplicates)
Box 2, Folder 6
Penultimate draft: “Changes in Female Sexuality”
Box 2, Folder 7
“Communication on Female Sexuality Between Mothers and College-Age
Daughters”
Box 2, Folder 8
“CROW Reports, No.36: Dédoublement in the Fiction of George
Sand”
Box 2, Folder 9
Wellesley Class of 1954 – Roll Call 1974
Box 2, Folder 11
Misc. CROW notecards/postcard invites
Box 2, Folder 12
Misc. related to female sexuality questionnaires (follow
up)
Box 2, Folder 13
Jing Lyman lectures Fall 1983: Love and Work – “The Challenge for the
Family” [poster]
Box 2, Folder 14
Letter to Marilyn Yalom from Psychology of Women Quarterly,
1979
Box 2, Folder 15
“Women Writers of the West Coast” book reviews (and related
articles)
Box 2, Folder 16
Articles about Female Sexuality Project study results
Box 3, Folder 1
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford alums-- #1-15 (plus 2
unnumbered)
Box 3, Folder 2
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford alums-- #16-30
Box 3, Folder 3
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford alums-- #31-45
Box 3, Folder 4
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford alums-- #46-60
Box 3, Folder 5
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford alums-- #61-75
Box 3, Folder 6
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford alums-- #76-93 [end]
Box 4, Folder 1
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #1-15
Box 4, Folder 2
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #16-30
Box 4, Folder 3
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #31-45
Box 4, Folder 4
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #46-60
Box 4, Folder 5
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #61-75
Box 4, Folder 6
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #76-90
Box 5, Folder 1
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #91-105
Box 5, Folder 2
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #106-120
Box 5, Folder 3
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #121-135
Box 5, Folder 4
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #136-150
Box 5, Folder 5
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #151-165
Box 6, Folder 1
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #166-180
Box 6, Folder 2
Completed Questionnaires – Stanford Class 1980-- #181-184 (#181
missing) [end]
Box 6, Folder 3
Completed Questionnaires – Wellesley alums-- #1-15 [#2
missing]
Box 6, Folder 4
Completed Questionnaires – Wellesley alums-- #16-30
Box 6, Folder 5
Completed Questionnaires – Wellesley alums-- #31-45
Box 6, Folder 6
Completed Questionnaires – Wellesley alums-- #46-49 [end]
Box 6, Folder 7
Extra packages (blank) – Stanford alums – invites to participate (x4;
one packet includes envelope)
Box 6, Folder 8
Extra blank packages—Stanford alums (x4; incl. sample package and one
with envelope)
Box 6, Folder 9
Extra blank pages – Stanford class 1980 questionnaire – cover, pink
sheet, questionnaire (x3)
Box 6, Folder 10
Extra packages – Wellesley alums (x4)
