Emily Hartshorne Mudd
BornSeptember 6, 1898
DiedMay 2, 1998
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Professor, Birth Control Advocate
HonoursElected to the American Philosophical Society in 1993.[1]

Emily Borie Hartshorne Mudd (September 6, 1898 – May 2, 1998), was an early family expert, a women's rights activist and birth control advocate.[2][3][4][5]

Education

Emily Mudd attended Vassar.[6] She earned a master's degree as well as a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.[7]

Birth control advocacy

In 1927 Mudd founded Philadelphia's first birth control clinic.[5] Knowing there was a law on the books in the city of Philadelphia barring 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.[5]

Family counseling work

In 1933 Mudd helped create the Philadelphia Marriage Council.[4] According to the New York Times, Mudd "...helped lay the groundwork for virtually every aspect of professional marriage and family counseling."[4]

Work on the Kinsey Report

In addition to her counseling work, Mudd was also a consulting editor on Alfred Kinsey's Report on the Human Female.[7]

Teaching career

Mudd was the first woman to become a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania's medical school.[5] Before her appointment in 1956 to a full professorship, she was appointed in 1952 to an assistant professorship of family study in psychiatry, becoming the third woman on the medical school's faculty.[8]

Work with Planned Parenthood

Emily Hartshorne Mudd was heavily involved in the creation of the Planned Parenthood Association of Philadelphia.[7]

Personal life

Email Hartshorne Mudd was married to University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Stuart Mudd.[7] They were married for fifty years until he died in 1975.[5] The couple had sons named Harvey and John and daughters named Emily and Peggy.[9] Mudd was voted mother of the year by the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1961.[10] She lived to the age of 99 and had ten grandchildren.[5][11]

  • Celello, Kristin (February 2000). "Mudd, Emily Borie Hartshorne". American National Biography Online. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  • Mastroianni, Luigi (March 2000). "Emily Hartshorne Mudd; 6 September 1898–2 May 1998" (PDF). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 144 (1).

References

  1. ↑ "APS Member History".
  2. ↑ "Mudd Family Papers". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Celello, Kristin (February 2000). "Mudd, Emily Borie Hartshorne". American National Biography Online. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 Thomas, Robert McG. Jr. (1998-05-06). "Emily Mudd, 99, Dies; Early Family Expert". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mastroianni, Luigi (2000). "Emily Hartshorne Mudd, 6 September 1898 · 2 May 1998". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 144 (1): 100–104. ISSN 0003-049X. JSTOR 1515609.
  6. ↑ "Vassar Chronicle 18 January 1947 — HRVH Historical Newspapers". news.hrvh.org. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Mudd Family Papers". University Archives and Records Center. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  8. ↑ "Deaths. Dr. Emily Mudd, Pioneer in Marriage and Family Counseling". University of Pennsylvania Almanac. 44 (33). May 12, 1998.
  9. ↑ "Collection: Papers of Emily Hartshorne Mudd, 1873-1990 | HOLLIS for". hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  10. ↑ "30 Apr 1961, Page 37 - The Philadelphia Inquirer at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  11. ↑ "5 May 1998, Page 40 - The Philadelphia Inquirer at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2021-09-22.


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