Emily Hartshorne Mudd

Emily Hartshorne Mudd
Born(1898-09-06)September 6, 1898
DiedMay 2, 1998(1998-05-02) (aged 99)
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
OccupationsProfessor, Birth Control Advocate
HonoursElected to the American Philosophical Society in 1993.

Emily Borie Hartshorne Mudd (September 6, 1898 – May 2, 1998), was an early family expert, women's rights activist and birth control advocate. According to The New York Times, she "...helped lay the groundwork for virtually every aspect of professional marriage and family counseling."

Education

Emily Mudd attended Vassar. She earned a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work (1936) as well as a doctorate in Sociology (1950).

Career

In 1927, Mudd founded Philadelphia's first birth control clinic. She knew of a Philadelphia law that barred pregnant women from being imprisoned, a pregnant Mudd worked to create this clinic. She published an article about early family planning in the February 1931 edition of the Birth Control Review. She was also heavily involved in the creation of the Planned Parenthood Association of Philadelphia. In 1933 Mudd and her husband, a microbiologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, helped create the Philadelphia Marriage Council. She served as its executive director from 1936 to her retirement in 1967. In addition to her counseling work, Mudd was also a consulting editor on Alfred Kinsey's report on the sexual behavior of the human female. She and her husband co-authored 14 papers.

Mudd was awarded the Lucretia Mott Award of Women's Way in 1983 and the Pennsylvania ACLU's Seventh Annual Civil Liberties Award in 1989.

Mudd was appointed in 1952 to an assistant professorship of family study in psychiatry, becoming the third woman on the medical school's faculty. In 1956, she became the first woman appointed a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania's medical school.

Personal life

She married University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Stuart Mudd in 1922. They remained married for fifty years until he died in 1975. The couple had two sons and two daughters. Mudd was voted mother of the year by The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1961. She later remarried. She lived to the age of 99 and had ten grandchildren.

References

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  2. ↑ "Mudd Family Papers". University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on October 23, 2005. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
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  8. ↑ Mastroianni, Luigi. ""Emily Hartshorne Mudd, 6 September 1898 · 2 May 1998."". login.csulb.idm.oclc.org. Retrieved 2026-09-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: miscellaneous url (link)
  9. ↑ "Deaths. Dr. Emily Mudd, Pioneer in Marriage and Family Counseling". University of Pennsylvania Almanac. 44 (33). May 12, 1998.
  10. ↑ "Collection: Papers of Emily Hartshorne Mudd, 1873-1990 | HOLLIS for". hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  11. ↑ "30 Apr 1961, Page 37 - The Philadelphia Inquirer at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  12. ↑ "5 May 1998, Page 40 - The Philadelphia Inquirer at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2021-09-22.