2006-2007 Distinguished Visiting Alumni Series

Co-Sponsored by:
CUSSW Alumni Association


Peggy Drexler, Ph.D., M.S.W.'74
Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Models, Myths, and the Changing American Family

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
12:30 - 1:30 (Room C03)

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School of Social Work - 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
(between 121st & Morningside Drive)

Presentation
Dr. Peggy Drexler shares the results of her long-term, groundbreaking study comparing boys from female-headed households with those raised in traditional mom-and-dad families.

About the Presenter
Peggy Drexler, Ph.D. is a research psychologist who has worked with children over many years. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and a former Gender Scholar at Stanford University. Dr. Drexler's book Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men (Rodale, 2005), based on her extensive research of boys raised in two-parent lesbian, heterosexual and single mothers by choice, and circumstance families, was both a Finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award and a Finalist fo the Lambda Literary Award.

Dr Drexler has published her research in the professional journals and in the popular media including the Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and San Francisco Examiner among other publications. Her opinion pieces have been published by the Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times and online publications such as Women's eNews. Dr. Drexler is consulted on the changing American family and the lives of boys by the New York Times, USA Today, and other national and international media sources. She has appeared on Good Morning America and the Today show.

Copies of Raising Boys Without Men will be available at the Jan 31st lecture

Suggested Readings

Drexler P. Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms are creating the Next
Generation of Exceptional Men. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale; 2005.

Drexler P. The New Family Tree: Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent
Psychotherapy, 5(2):240-256, 2006.

Drexler P. On Pins and Needles: The Invasive Treatment of a Son. Bulletin of
the Menninger Clinic 2002; 66 (3): 290-301.

Drexler P. Moral Reasoning in Sons of Lesbian and Heterosexual Parent
Families: The Oedipal Period of Development. Gender and Psychoanalysis 2001; 6
1:19-51.

Drexler P. Do Boys Need Daddies? The Moral Development of Sons of Lesbians.
IN THE FAMILY, October, 2000; 5 4: 10-12, 25.

Additional Information
Peggy Drexler's website

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