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About Dr. Constance Rita Sutton
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/obituaries/constance-sutton-dead...
In 1956, Constance Sutton, a recent master’s degree graduate of the University of Chicago, was hired by Margaret Mead (the pre-eminent anthropologist) to edit her latest book. Dr. Mead, who was teaching at Columbia University, was impressed by Ms. Sutton’s credentials but was baffled by one question: Why, after finishing all of her course work, hadn’t she gotten her doctorate?
Dr. Sutton (she eventually did earn her Ph.D.) later recalled that she didn’t even pause to reflect: Her doctoral adviser, she told Dr. Mead, had demanded to know how she could possibly conduct on-site research abroad when she was already on her second marriage and when neither of her husbands was an anthropologist.
“Either you had to be a spinster, or you could accompany your husband if he was an anthropologist,” Dr. Sutton explained in 2015 in an interview with the New York Public Library’s Community Oral History Project. “But to go yourself as a woman anthropologist to do field work was not heard of.”
“Margaret Mead, in her characteristic way, said, ‘That’s fiddlesticks.’ ”
Dr. Sutton added, “I realized I had moved into a very different setting than I was around at the University of Chicago, where it was not imaginable that you would leave your husband if you were married.”
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Dr. Constance Rita Sutton's Timeline
| 1926 |
January 29, 1926
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Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
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| 2018 |
August 23, 2018
Age 92
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Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York, United States
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