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Josephine Hemenway Kenyon was born on May 10, 1880 in Auburn, New York, United States, the daughter of Charles Carroll Hemenway, a Presbyterian minister, and of Ida Shackelford. When Kenyon was eleven, the family moved to Glasgow, Missouri, where her father became president of Pritchett College, a small, nonsectarian institution.
Kenyon attended the college, receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1898 and the Master of Arts degree the following year. Interested in a career in medicine, she spent a year at Bryn Mawr College (1899 - 1900), studying biology, before entering the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1900. At Johns Hopkins, Kenyon studied under such distinguished faculty members as William Henry Welch, William Osler, William S. Halsted, and Howard Kelly. She was one of three women in the class of 1904, which included forty-two men, and was among the earliest women graduates of the school. Upon her graduation she received the Doctor of Medicine degree.
Kenyon started her work experince in Baltimore, serving as a house medical officer at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital. She then moved to New York City to serve a residency in pediatrics at Babies Hospital, one of the first institutions in the United States dedicated solely to the care of infants and children. Kenyon worked there until 1911, under the noted pediatrician Luther Emmett Holt, chief of the hospital. Holt later called her "the best man I ever had on my staff. " Her training completed, Kenyon established a private practice in New York City.
Kenyon began a twenty-four-year association with Columbia University Teachers College in 1913, when she was appointed to teach child care and social hygiene. A pioneer in the field of sex education, she directed the national Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) lecture program for women and girls during World War I. These lectures presented by the Social Morality Committee addressed issues of sexual hygiene and morality, emphasizing proper deportment in relations with soldiers. After the war Kenyon became supervisor of health work for the YWCA, which sponsored health programs for women. She left the YWCA in 1921.
In 1923 Kenyon established the Health and Happiness Club for Good Housekeeping magazine. Initially reluctant to take the position because professional ethics forbade physicians to seek publicity, she eventually agreed, citing her interest in health education. Under the auspices of the club, Kenyon wrote eight letters, one each month, to pregnant women, counseling them on prenatal care and preparations for motherhood. This series was followed by a second one that advised mothers on such topics as feeding, growth and development, and toilet training during the baby's first year. These letters proved so popular that Kenyon became a regular columnist for Good Housekeeping in 1924.
Kenyon published a comprehensive guide to pregnancy and the care of young children, Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies, in 1934. By 1951 the book had gone through five editions and nineteen printings, and had been translated into five languages. The popularity of the book stemmed from its common-sense style, as well as from the trend to seek expert advice on questions of family life and child rearing. Kenyon's advice to mothers reflected the shift in the first half of the twentieth century from a rigid approach to a more indulgent, permissive attitude toward child rearing.
Kenyon's early writings in the 1920's suggested maintaining a strict timetable for feeding infants, but by 1940 she argued for "demand feeding" and greater flexibility. She also revised her early stringent views of toilet-training procedures that insisted on starting in the child's fourth or fifth week, and advocated a more relaxed approach. Influenced by the development of theories of personality, Kenyon emphasized in her later writings the need for the infant to feel a sense of security and love--"mothering"--an attitude that earlier advice had suggested could spoil the child. She provided mothers with considerable information on childhood diseases and emotional problems, but she nevertheless recommended frequent visits to a family physician. In 1945 Kenyon retired from practice, but continued to write for Good Housekeeping until 1952. She moved in 1950 to Boulder, Colorado, where she died.
Kenyon's fame rested mainly on her writings on child rearing. She contributed a lot of article on that subject to Good Housekeeping magazine, offering advice on a wide range of topics, including nutrition, recreation, and psychology. She also helped to organize the first International Conference of Women Doctors (1919), which discussed questions of health, psychology, prenatal and child care, and aspects of sexual morality.
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Kenyon was active in church-related health work throughout her career and served as a member of the Presbyterian Mission Board.
On September 7, 1911, Josephine Hemenway married James Henry Kenyon, a neurosurgeon. They had two daughters.
