A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand and Evelyn L. Forget
General Reference
- Published in print:
- 26 Oct 2000
- ISBN:
- 9781852789640
- eISBN:
- 9781843761426
- Pages:
- 520
- A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Edith Abbott
- Ruth Alice Allen
- Shirley Ann Montag Almon
- Elizabeth Faulkner Baker
- Emily Greene Balch
- Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg
- Hilde Behrend
- Cora Berliner
- Krishna Bharadwaj
- Huguette Biaujeaud
- Clementina Black
- Rosalind (Hyman) Blauer
- Barbara Bodichon
- Olga Nikolajevna Bondareva
- Helen Dendy Bosanquet
- Ester Boserup
- Emilia Jessie Boucherett
- Marian E.A. Bowley
- Mary Jean Bowman
- Dorothy Stahl Brady
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Elizabeth Read Brown
- Martha Stephanie Browne
- Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns
- Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
- Helen Stuart Campbell
- Agatha Louisa Chapman
- Margaret Cole
- Clara Elizabeth Collet
- Katharine Coman
- Costanza Costantino
- Caroline Wells Healey Dall
- Julie-Victoire Daubié
- Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids
- Katherine Bement Davis
- Marie Dessauer
- Elisabeth Caroline van Dorp
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- Minnie Throop England
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Ann Fetter Friedlaender
- Rose Director Friedman
- Elizabeth Waterman Gilboy
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Fanny Ginor
- Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp
- Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith
- Dorothy C. Goodwin
- Margaret Gordon
- Marina Goudi
- Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
- Lucy Barbara (Bradby) Hammond
- Amy Hewes
- Ursula Hicks
- Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt
- B.L. Hutchins
- Mary Quayle Innis
- Alice Hanson Jones
- Florence Kelley
- Susan Myra Kingsbury
- Karin Kock
- Anna Koutsoyiannis
- Hazel Kyrk
- KÃ_the Leichter
- Charlotte Leubuscher
- Helene Lieser
- Gertrud von Lovasy
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Jane Haldimand Marcet
- Mary Paley Marshall
- Harriet Martineau
- Jean Trepp McKelvey
- Theresa Schmid McMahon
- Mary Meynieu
- Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
- Ilse Schüller Mintz
- Natalie Moszkowska
- Selma J. Mushkin
- Margaret Good Myers
- Maria Negreponti-Delivani
- Mabel Newcomer
- Jessica Blanche Peixotto
- Virginia Penny
- Edith Tilton Penrose
- The Philip Family
- Vera Cao Pinna
- Michèle A. Pujol
- Eleanor Rathbone
- Margaret Gilpin Reid
- Joan Robinson
- Clémence-Auguste Royer
- Lise Salvas-Bronsard
- Koko (Takako) Sanpei
- Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter
- Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- Nancy L. Schwartz
- Hannah Robie Sewall
- Kate Sheppard
- Irene M. Spry
- Maria Szecsi
- Setsu Tanino
- Maria da Conceição Tavares
- Marguerite Thibert
- Mabel Frances Timlin
- Cläre Tisch
- Flora Tristan
- Mary Abby Van Kleeck
- Priscilla Wakefield
- Phyllis Ann Wallace
- Barbara Ward
- Caroline Farrar Ware
- Beatrice Potter Webb
- Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
- Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston
- Barbara Wootton
- Frieda Wunderlich
- Kikue Yamakawa
- Anna Pritchett Youngman
- Irini (Rena) Zafiriou
Jessica Blanche Peixotto
Richard A. Lobdell
Reference Entry
- Published in print:
- 26 Oct 2000
- Category:
- Reference Entry
- Pages:
- (2 total)
Extract
(1864–1941) Jessica Blanche Peixotto was born in New York on 9 October 1864, to Myrtilla Jessica (Davis) Peixotto and Raphael Peixotto. Within a few years her family moved to San Francisco where Raphael soon established himself as a prominent merchant and leading citizen. Jessica graduated from high school in 1880 and had hoped to enter the University of California at Berkeley. But Raphael opposed his only daughter’s desire, apparently convinced that ‘university life was not appropriate for a young girl to whom were available the rich opportunities within a cultured home circle’ (Hatfield, 1935, p. 5). Instead, he arranged a series of tutors who privately instructed Jessica in a wide variety of subjects (Chambers, 1971, p. 42). At the age of 27, Peixotto enrolled at Berkeley as a special student not seeking a degree. After an undistinguished first year, she became serious about her studies and completed a four-year Ph.B. degree in the spring of 1894. In the next academic year, she began graduate studies in the Department of Political Science, and pursued a special interest in economics even thought she had completed only two economics courses as an undergraduate. She spent 1896– 97 at the Sorbonne conducting research for her thesis, ‘A Comparative Study of the Principles of the French Revolution and the Doctrines of Modern French Socialism’, which was subsequently published under a slightly different title (Peixotto, 1901). In May 1900, Peixotto became the second woman to be awarded a doctoral degree by the University of...
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- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Edith Abbott
- Ruth Alice Allen
- Shirley Ann Montag Almon
- Elizabeth Faulkner Baker
- Emily Greene Balch
- Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg
- Hilde Behrend
- Cora Berliner
- Krishna Bharadwaj
- Huguette Biaujeaud
- Clementina Black
- Rosalind (Hyman) Blauer
- Barbara Bodichon
- Olga Nikolajevna Bondareva
- Helen Dendy Bosanquet
- Ester Boserup
- Emilia Jessie Boucherett
- Marian E.A. Bowley
- Mary Jean Bowman
- Dorothy Stahl Brady
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Elizabeth Read Brown
- Martha Stephanie Browne
- Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns
- Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
- Helen Stuart Campbell
- Agatha Louisa Chapman
- Margaret Cole
- Clara Elizabeth Collet
- Katharine Coman
- Costanza Costantino
- Caroline Wells Healey Dall
- Julie-Victoire Daubié
- Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids
- Katherine Bement Davis
- Marie Dessauer
- Elisabeth Caroline van Dorp
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- Minnie Throop England
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Ann Fetter Friedlaender
- Rose Director Friedman
- Elizabeth Waterman Gilboy
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Fanny Ginor
- Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp
- Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith
- Dorothy C. Goodwin
- Margaret Gordon
- Marina Goudi
- Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
- Lucy Barbara (Bradby) Hammond
- Amy Hewes
- Ursula Hicks
- Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt
- B.L. Hutchins
- Mary Quayle Innis
- Alice Hanson Jones
- Florence Kelley
- Susan Myra Kingsbury
- Karin Kock
- Anna Koutsoyiannis
- Hazel Kyrk
- KÃ_the Leichter
- Charlotte Leubuscher
- Helene Lieser
- Gertrud von Lovasy
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Jane Haldimand Marcet
- Mary Paley Marshall
- Harriet Martineau
- Jean Trepp McKelvey
- Theresa Schmid McMahon
- Mary Meynieu
- Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
- Ilse Schüller Mintz
- Natalie Moszkowska
- Selma J. Mushkin
- Margaret Good Myers
- Maria Negreponti-Delivani
- Mabel Newcomer
- Jessica Blanche Peixotto
- Virginia Penny
- Edith Tilton Penrose
- The Philip Family
- Vera Cao Pinna
- Michèle A. Pujol
- Eleanor Rathbone
- Margaret Gilpin Reid
- Joan Robinson
- Clémence-Auguste Royer
- Lise Salvas-Bronsard
- Koko (Takako) Sanpei
- Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter
- Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- Nancy L. Schwartz
- Hannah Robie Sewall
- Kate Sheppard
- Irene M. Spry
- Maria Szecsi
- Setsu Tanino
- Maria da Conceição Tavares
- Marguerite Thibert
- Mabel Frances Timlin
- Cläre Tisch
- Flora Tristan
- Mary Abby Van Kleeck
- Priscilla Wakefield
- Phyllis Ann Wallace
- Barbara Ward
- Caroline Farrar Ware
- Beatrice Potter Webb
- Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
- Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston
- Barbara Wootton
- Frieda Wunderlich
- Kikue Yamakawa
- Anna Pritchett Youngman
- Irini (Rena) Zafiriou