Distinguished Visiting Alumni Series

Co-Sponsored by:
CUSSW Alumni Association


Peggy Drexler, Ph.D., M.S.W.'74
Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Models, Myths, and the Changing American Family

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
12:30 - 1:30pm
Columbia University School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue
Room C03

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Presentation
Dr. Peggy Drexler shares the results of her long-term, groundbreaking study comparing boys from female-headed households with those raised in traditional mom-and-dad families.

About the Presenter
Dr. Peggy Drexler (www.peggydrexler.com) has spent her career studying men and women: who they are, what they want, how they act, how they're changing.

Her latest focus is on the new American family, which led to the much-discussed book: Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men. Her work received wide praise -- for showing that effective families come in many forms, including mothers single by choice and lesbian parents -- and sharp criticism by those who believe the word family has just one definition.

She is currently at work on a new book about fathers and daughters.

Dr. Drexler has been a clinician and lecturer at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical School, a researcher at Stanford University as a Gender Scholar, and is currently Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and consultant to the Fund for the City of New York in connection with Women's eNews.

She is an in-demand speaker, with presentations at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School and many other colleges and universities across the United States. She has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America and TODAY. She frequently offers her expert commentary on gender, families and the lives of boys to national, local, international and professional publications. Among them: USA TODAY, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, The Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Times, The Observer (United Kingdom), Ma'ariv (Israel), O Estado De S. Paulo (Brazil), Cosmopolitan, Health, Child Magazine, Maclean's Magazine (Canada), The Huffington Post, Women's eNews, The Bulletin of The Menninger Clinic and others.

She and her husband of over 30 years have two children -- a daughter fifteen  and a son twenty-nine -- and currently reside with their daughter and two Labrador Retrievers in New York.

Suggested Readings

Drexler P. Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms are creating the Next
Generation of Exceptional Men. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale; 2005.

Drexler P. The New Family Tree: Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent
Psychotherapy, 5(2):240-256, 2006.

Drexler P. On Pins and Needles: The Invasive Treatment of a Son. Bulletin of
the Menninger Clinic 2002; 66 (3): 290-301.

Drexler P. Moral Reasoning in Sons of Lesbian and Heterosexual Parent
Families: The Oedipal Period of Development. Gender and Psychoanalysis 2001; 6
1:19-51.

Drexler P. Do Boys Need Daddies? The Moral Development of Sons of Lesbians.
IN THE FAMILY, October, 2000; 5 4: 10-12, 25.

Additional Information
Peggy Drexler's website

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