Female Sociologists: Expanding the Canon

Inna Rozentsvit has made a major contribution to the history of psychoanalysis in “Women’s Voices in Psychoanalysis: Erased or Forgotten” by correcting a serious omission from the canon—that is, reevaluating the work of female pioneers who have simply been left out or ignored. She correctly notes that one of the causes of these omissions is due to the gender biases of its time.