Marilyn Yalom

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Marilyn Yalom (born March 10, 1932 in Chicago as Marilyn Koenick, † November 20, 2019 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American literary scholar , gender researcher and feminist non-fiction author.

Life

Marilyn Yalom grew up in a Jewish-Russian emigrant family in Washington DC, the middle of three sisters.

She studied comparative literature in Paris at the Sorbonne, where she received a diploma in 1953. In 1954 she completed her studies with a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College and in 1955 with a master's (Master of Arts in Teaching) in French and German at Harvard . In 1963 she received her doctorate from Johns Hopkins University with the dissertation The Myth of the Trial in the Works of Camus and Kafka . She then was Professor of French Literature at California State University in Hayward and on the faculty of the University of Hawaii and taught at Stanford. From 1976 to 1987 she was Deputy Director of the newly established Center for Research on Women (Center for Women's Studies) of Stanford University , which later Clayman Institute for Gender Research was renamed (Clayman Institute for Gender Studies).

Since her resignation in 1987 as deputy director of the Clayman Institute, where she continued to teach as a senior scholar, Yalom has focused on writing non-fiction books on topics from the history of art, culture, society and medicine. Her book The Social Sex. A History of Female Friendship was published in 2017 in German translation under the title Freundinnen . It is the first cultural history of women's friendships in the past 2000 years, starting with the Bible and going into the 21st century.

Marilyn Yalom was married to the psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom from 1954 . The couple had four children and lived in Palo Alto, California where Marilyn Yalom died in November 2019 at the age of 87.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • The Social Sex. A History of Female Friendship , with Theresa Donovan Brown (2013)
    • Girlfriends. A cultural story . German by Liselotte Prugger (2017)
  • How the French Invented Love. 900 Years of Passion and Romance (2012)
    • How the French invented love. 900 years of passion . German by Michaela Messner ISBN 978-3-86220-038-2 (2013)
  • The American Resting Place. 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds (2008)
  • Birth of the Chess Queen (2004)
  • A History of the Breast (1997)
    • A story of the chest . German by Olga Rinne (1998)
  • A History of the Wife (2001)
  • Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness, Blood Sisters. The French Revolution in Women's Memory (1993)
  • Blood Sisters. The French Revolution in Women's Memory (1993)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marilyn Yalom, groundbreaking gender studies scholar, dies at 87. In: Stanford News Service. November 25, 2019, accessed November 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Marilyn Yalom: Foreword to The American Resting Place. 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds (2008)
  3. ↑ Marilyn Yalom Koenick, 2013 Alumnae Achievement Award . Wellesley College website
  4. ^ Marilyn Yalom. Senior Scholar . Clayman Institute website, Stanford University
  5. ↑ Ann Friedmann, 'The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship', Sunday Book Review, NYT, September 18, 2015
  6. ↑ Michaela Metz: When the best friend with the best friend , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 28, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Yalom, Marilyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yalom, Koenick Marilyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH 20th November 2019
Place of death Palo Alto , California