Mirra Komarovsky
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Died | January 30, 1999 New York City, U.S. | (aged 93)
Nationality | Russian / American |
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Mirra Komarovsky (February 5, 1905 – January 30, 1999), was an American pioneer in the sociology of gender.[2]
Early years
Born to Mendel and Anna Komarovsky (née Steinberg)
Life in the United States
Once in the United States, she graduated from Wichita High School within a year and in 1922,
Komarovsky as a sociologist
Komarovsky's dissertation topic, which she stumbled upon in 1935 through a research position with mathematician
Komarovsky built her legacy on researching the social and cultural attitudes of families. Much of her work focused on the idea of “cultural lag,” in which the cultural attitudes surrounding women generally lag behind technological and social advances. Throughout the rest of her career, she continued to study the role of women and the outlooks of society towards those roles. She became one of the first social scientists to look critically at gender and the role of women in society.[5]
Professor Komarovsky retired in 1970 after 32 years on the faculty of Barnard College. But she returned to Barnard in 1978 and became the chairwoman of its women's studies program until 1992[3][6]
In 1973 and 1974, she became the second woman after Dorothy Swaine Thomas[3] to be president of the American Sociological Association. Her research during the 1980s tracked many of the changes taking place in the consciousness of young women and their life choices in response to the feminist movement.[7]
Personal life
In 1940, she married Marcus A. Heyman.[1] She died at New York City on January 30, 1999.[8]
Notable works
- Leisure: A Suburban Study, 1934
- The Unemployed Man and His Family, 1940
- Women in the Modern World. Their Education and Their Dilemmas, 1953
- Common Frontiers of the Social Sciences, 1957
- Blue-Collar Marriage, 1964
- Sociology and Public Policy, (975
- Dilemmas of Masculinity: A Study of College Youth, 1976
- Women in College. Shaping New Feminine Identities, 1985.
References
- ^ New York Times
- ^ [1] Archived January 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Mirra Komarovsky. Britannica.com
- ^ KOMAROVSKY, MIRRA. Jewish Virtual Library
- ^ a b "Mirra Komarovsky papers available". Barnard College Archives. May 3, 2010. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
- ^ Pace, Eric (1999-02-01). "Mirra Komarovsky, Authority on Women's Studies, Dies at 93". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
- ^ Mirra Komarovsky Archived 2016-08-15 at the Wayback Machine. Barnard College
- ^ Mirra Komarovsky. American Sociological Association