Clelia Duel Mosher
Clelia Duel Mosher was born on December 16th, As a physician and hygienist, she is one of the pioneer American physicians to have attempted to study 19th-century women's sexuality.
In , she graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She later became a professor. This came after she successfully concluded on her earlier research on myths about women's inferiority to men.
Earlier Life
Clelia Duel Mosher was born on December 16th, in Albany, New York. The daughter to Dr. Cornelius Mosher, she developed an interest in human physiology at a tender age while training under her father's guardianship. Her father, unlike most men, respected women's education and gave her daughter the best he could.
Dr. Cornelius motivated her daughter to read literary materials and gave her their greenhouse for personal botanical research. Although she struggled to deal with her sickly status as a child, she managed to enroll at Wesley College and paid for her tuition from her savings.
Education
Clelia Duel Mosher first joined Wellesley College in She then transferred to the University of Wisconsin. In her final year,
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Clelia Duel Mosher was a physician, hygienist and women"s health advocate who disapproved of Victorian stereotypes about the physical incapacities of women.
Education
Mosher attended Wellesley College, the University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University, where she received a bachelor&#;s degree in zoology in In , she received a master&#;s degree from Stanford. In , Mosher became a student at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Mosher&#;s Master&#;s degree thesis disproved the then widely held belief that women were physically inferior to men because they could only breathe costally, showing instead it was only women&#;s fashionable corset clothing of the time that prevented diaphragmatic breathing.
She found that women would breathe with their diaphragm with enough exercise.
Career
After her graduation as a doctor of medicine, Mosher worked in private practice, until she became an assistant professor of personal hygiene at Stanford in Mosher subsequently researched menstruation, gathering data from 2, women over 12, menstrual cycles. She revealed unhygienic habi
The Sex Scholar
In , historian Carl Degler was combing the University archives, gathering research for a book on the history of the family. Sifting through the papers of Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher, who taught in Stanford's hygiene department around the turn of the 20th century, he came across a mysteriously bound file. Degler nearly put it aside, figuring it was a manuscript for one of Mosher's published works, mostly statistical treatises on women's height, strength and menstruation. But instead, he recalls, "I opened it up and there were these questionnaires"— questionnaires upon which dozens of women, most born before , had inscribed their most intimate thoughts.
In other words, it was a sex survey. A Victorian sex survey. It is the earliest known study of its type, long preceding, for example, the and Kinsey Reports, whose oldest female respondents were born in the s. The Mosher Survey recorded not only women's sexual habits and appetites, but also their thinking about spousal relationships, children and contraception. Perhaps, it hinted, Victorian women weren't so Victorian after all.
Indeed, many of the surveyed women were decidedly unshrinking. One, born in , called sex
Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher: Women’s Sexuality & Equal Rights Advocate
Her studies in female sexuality predated Kinsey’s by over 50 years
Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher was born on December 16, in Albany, New York to Cornelius Duel Mosher, M.D. and Sarah Burritt Mosher. Clelia idolized her father, who gave her a taste for medicine at a young age, taking her on his medical rounds and teaching her about literature and botany.
After a childhood punctuated by illness, Mosher enrolled at Wellesley College in at the age of She transferred in her junior year to the University of Wisconsin, and in her senior year to Stanford University.
It was at Stanford she received an A.B. in zoology in and an A.M. in physiology in while teaching health, physiology, and exercise to female students as an assistant in the department of hygiene. Mosher then went on to graduate with an M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in
Studies in Female Sexuality
In while a year-old biology student at the University of Wisconsin, Mosher developed, administered, and collected data for a survey noting the sexual habits and attitudes of a group of women born prior to The survey recorded
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