Carden, Maren Lockwood

Maren Lockwood Carden earned her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1963. She became a sociologist who wrote on feminism; she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute from 1970-1972.

From the description of Student notes, 1956-1959. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77066954

Sociologist (University of London, B.Sc., 1955; University of Maryland, M.A., 1957; Harvard University, Ph.D., 1963), Carden received a variety of grants, was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute (1961, 1970-1972), and taught at SUNY/Buffalo, Boston University, Yale, and Long Island University. A feminist, she was active in the National Organization for Women in the Boston area during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Carden's research interests included social reform movement and social change, and in 1974 she published The New Feminist Movement, for which she interviewed over a hundred men and women involved in the feminist movement. She followed this study with a report for the Ford Foundation entitled Feminism in the Mid-1970s: The Nonestablishment, the Establishment, and the Future (1977).

From the description of Papers, 1969-1979 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122614561

Maren Lockwood Carden, sociologist, received her B.Sc. from the University of London (1955), her master's degree in sociology from the University of Maryland (1957), and her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University (1963). Carden received a variety of grants, and was a Whitney Fellow at Radcliffe College in 1961 as well as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow from 1970 to 1972. She taught at SUNY/Buffalo, Boston University, Yale University, and Long Island University.

Carden's research interests included social reform movements, sociology of religion, and social change. In 1969, she published Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern Corporation . She considered herself a feminist, and was active in the National Organization for Women in the Boston area during the late 1960s and early 1970s. During this period, she researched and wrote The New Feminist Movement, published in 1974. For this study, she interviewed over a hundred women and men involved in the feminist movement.

After publishing The New Feminist Movement, Carden completed a report for the Ford Foundation entitled Feminism in the Mid-1970's: The Non-establishment, the Establishment, and the Future (published in 1977).

From the guide to the Papers, 1969-1979, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)