Talk:Kathleen Gough

A fact from Kathleen Gough appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 March 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Marxist leanings? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/March.

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I made several changes to the article about my mother, Eleanor Kathleen Gough Aberle.

- I corrected the spelling of her natal village: Hunsingore, not Hunsingnore.

- I changed the reference to her family being "working class". In frequent conversation and in her unpublished autobiographical sketch (which I have), she was clear about the fact that her family came from the "merchant class". This distinction was important to her, not for feelings of class pride but for accuracy. Understanding class consciousness was an important part of both her upbringing and her professional training as a social scientist.

- I removed the reference to her father having been an "ardent Marxist". I know this appears in David Price's generally excellent book, but it's without foundation. He was nothing of the kind, and anyone who knew him would laugh at the suggestion. He was politically conservative and a successful entrepreneur, the founder of a business selling agricultural machinery (Goughs of Hunsingore).

- I removed adjectives like "ardent" and "pronounced" from sentences describing her "Marxist tendencies". She certainly approached social science from a Marxist analytical perspective, but such adjectives imply that she was a doctrinaire Marxist political ideologue. She wasn't.

- I changed the reference to my father having "Marxist tendencies", which is not correct. He was a leftist but not a Marxist, either in his approach to social science or in his political views.

Stephen Aberle

Sdaberle (talk) 07:12, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

“Some of her work includes campaigning for: nuclear disarmament, the civil rights movement, women rights, the third world and the end of the Vietnam War” (this will be add to the very first section of her article)

Change attendance to Girton College from 1943 to 1946 (Early life and education section)

“Kathleen Gough also received her Ph.D from Girton College in 1950” (this will be added to the early life and education section)

“Gough was also taught and conducted research at Harvard, Manchester, Berkeley, Michigan, Wayne State, Toronto, and British Colombia” (this will be added to the career section)

“Gough was also active in peace movements on Brandeis campus from 1961-1963)” (this will be added to politics) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.20.149.113 (talk) 20:15, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]