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Clelia Mosher Begins Interviewing Women

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Sunday, May 1, 1892

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Sunday, May 1, 1892

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1892

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https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=29954

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Women testing their strength at Stanford in 1913 with Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher.

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As an undergraduate biology student at the University of Washington, Clelia Mosher begins interviewing women about their sexual experiences, relationships with their spouses, children, and contraception. She continues this work through 1920 and eventually works as a Stanford professor, but never publishes her findings.