THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Elizabeth Monroe Drews, Ph.D.

November 25, 1915–November 1976

“Our children are taught to don masks before they recognize their own faces. They are made to put their tender, pliable forms into prefabricated shells, the cultural roles prescribed for age, sex and class. All too soon the open faces and fluid selves are disfigured, as were the bound feet of the women of Manchu China. They are crushed to meet a social expectancy.”

Psychologist, professor, author. Founding member of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Board of Directors.