In graduate school, I took a "Women of Family Therapy" class with Dr. Janie Long and was assigned to research and interview Rachel Hare-Mustin. Learning about Dr. Hare-Mustin's groundbreaking work was very memorable. I am now a faculty member and when I teach about feminist family theory, I still share Hare-Mustin's alpha and beta bias framework.
Rachel was posesessed of a formidable intellect, a feminist perspective and sensibility especially with regard to women and their role in the family. This perspective was groundbreaking in its scope and effect on successive generations of students, not only in psychology but in any field of study in which women were undervalued, disregarded or dismissed as not up to the task.
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