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The "Lady
Professor" at Home
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Barbara Myerhoff married her husband Lee in
1954, at the age of 19. Their first child, Nick,
was born in 1968, after Myerhoff had completed her
doctoral work. Lee Myerhoff worked as a clinical
psychologist while Barbara taught at the University
of Southern California.
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As she sometimes commented, combining
motherhood with an academic career was "very bloody
hard." The elders she studied at the Israel Levin
Senior Center didn't make it any easier,
continually asking the "lady professor," "Tell me,
who's with your children?" In later years, Nick and
Matthew sometimes accompanied their mother to
assist with her research.
The Myerhoff's marriage ended in
divorce after 28 years together in 1982. Barbara
Myerhoff included this part of her personal life in
her final documentary, In Her Own Time, when
she filmed the ritual of obtaining her Jewish
divorce of "get".
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How to Cite This Page
For a bibliography:
Jewish Women's Archive. "JWA - Barbara Myerhoff - The Lady Professor at Home." <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/myerhoff/prof.html>.
For a footnote:
Jewish Women's Archive, "JWA - Barbara Myerhoff - The Lady Professor at Home," <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/myerhoff/prof.html>.
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