title: Carol Nagy (Jacklin) (1939-2011).
abstract: Carol Nagy (Jacklin) was a pioneer scholar of gender as well as a steadfast advocate for women's rights. She was born in Chicago in February 23, 1939. She died of cancer on August 8, 2011, at the age of 72. Carol was a developmental psychologist whose work focused mainly on babies and preschool-age children. She is best known as the co-author (with Eleanor Maccoby) of the groundbreaking volume The Psychology of Sex Differences (Stanford University Press, 1974).
authors.affiliation: Swarthmore College, USA.
authors.forename: Jeanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Marecek
authors.forename: Barrie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Thorne
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history