Jessie Bernard
| Jessie S. Bernard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 8, 1903 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | October 6, 1996 (aged 93) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
University of Minnesota (BA & MA in Sociology) Washington University in St. Louis (PhD in Sociology) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology, Feminist theory |
| Institutions |
Lindenwood College (1940–1947) Pennsylvania State University (1947–1964) |
Jessie Shirley Bernard (born Jessie Sarah Ravitch, June 8, 1903, Minneapolis, Minnesota – October 6, 1996, Washington, D.C.) was a sociologist and noted feminist scholar. She was a persistent forerunner of feminist thought in American sociology and her life's work is characterized as extraordinarily productive spanning several intellectual and political eras. Bernard studied and wrote about women's lives since the late 1930s and her contributions to social sciences and feminist theory regarding women, sex, marriage, and the interaction with the family and community are well noted. She has garnered numerous honors in her career and has several awards named after her, such as the Jessie Bernard Award. Jessie Bernard was a prolific writer, having published 15 sole-authored books, 9 co-authored books, over 75 journal articles, and over 40 book chapters.
Jessie Bernard (born Jessie Sarah Ravitch) was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was the third of four children born to Jewish-Romanian parents, Bessie Kanter and David Soloman Ravitch. In the 1880s her parents immigrated separately to the United States from Transylvania (today in Romania). Jessie's father started out delivering dairy products in Minneapolis, later became a haberdasher and finally a real estate broker. At the time, the Ravitch family were the only Jewish-immigrant family to reside in a middle-class community. With regards to Jessie's education, her parents believed she was better off pursuing an education in business school. However, Jessie graduated from public high school in 1920 and left home to study in social sciences at the University of Minnesota.
Jessie Bernard completed her undergraduate and post-graduate studies at the University of Minnesota. She earned her BA (magna cum laude) in 1923 and her MA in sociology in 1924. Her MA thesis was titled "Changes of Attitudes of Jews in the First and Second Generation" that earned her the Harris Prize. During her studies here she became actively involved in attempts to establish sociology as a recognized profession within American academia and she actively participated in the injection of empirical research into meetings of the American Sociological Society. Jessie studied with Pitirim Sorokin (founder of the sociology department at Harvard) and became research assistant to her sociology professor, Luther Lee Bernard.
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