Marynia F. Farnham

Marynia F. Farnham (1899 – May 29, 1979) was an American psychiatrist and author. She is best known for her 1947 work Modern Woman: The Lost Sex (with Ferdinand Lundberg), which contributed to the midcentury anti-feminist movement.

Early life and education In 1899, Marynia F. Farnham was born Marynia Foot in Red Wing, Minnesota.

As an undergraduate, she studied at Bryn Mawr College, where she graduated in 1921. Farnham became the public face of the book, flying around the country to promote it through lectures and television appearances, despite the inherent contradictions between her own professional success and the traditional path she advocated for in Modern Women.

As a psychiatrist, Farnham came to specialize in pediatric psychiatry, and her subsequent book, The Adolescent (1951), was intended for parents to understand their children in the modern era.

Later life Farnham retired from her full-time academic work in 1965, and she ceased practicing in 1968.

She died in 1979 at age 79.