Lucile Eaves (1869-1953)

Authors

Mary Jo Deegan, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Michael R. Hill, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

1991

Citation

Deegan, Mary Jo and Michael R. Hill. 1991. “Lucile Eaves (1869-1953).” Pp. 140-147 in Women in Sociology: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, edited by Mary Jo Deegan. New York: Greenwood Press.

Comments

Copyright 1991 Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill

Abstract

Lucile Eaves was a research and applied sociologist, a professor, and an activist. She was fired by a desire to change women's status and that of laborers, anticipating the contemporary concern with the structural ties between class and sex. She worked in the South Park Social Settlement of San Francisco, and as a faculty member at Stanford University, the University of Nebraska, and Simmons College. Her work for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union generated numerous quantitative studies of women's lives in a variety of contexts. She is one of the first sociologists to study medical sociology, especially women with physical disabilities.