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The Impact of fertility limitation on women's life-career and personality
- Author
- New York Academy of Sciences.
- Title
- The Impact of fertility limitation on women's life-career and personality / editor and workshop chairman, Esther Milner.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : The New York Academy of Sciences, 1970.
- Description
- p. 781-1065 ; 233 cm.
- Other contributors
- Milner, Esther.
- Series
- New York Academy of Sciences. Annals ; v. 175, no. 3.
- Notes
- Includes statistical tables. "This series of papers is the result of a workshop entitled The Impact of Fertility Limitation on Woman's Life-Career and Personality, held by The New York Accademy of Sciences, on February 19-21, 1970" Anthology. Includes bibliography, p. 1039-1065, and bibliographical references. Paperbound.
- Contents
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- Parts: points of departure
- Anatomy and destiny / Nancy Reeves
- Needed research on current population trends / William Petersen
- Discussion of contraceptive technology: current and prospective methods / Ruth B. Kundsin (moderator)
- A digest of three papers by Joseph D. Beasley / Chana Heffner
- Cultural factors in family planning / Lucile F. Newman
- Looking ahead: some social and individual consequences of mass acceptance of the two-child family in Britain / Derek G. Gill
- Probably social and psychological consequences of an American population policy aimed at the two-child family / Catherine S. Chilman
- Leads on old questions from a new revolution: notes on Cuban women, 1969 / Virginia Olesen
- Current and emergin occupation-centered feminine life-career patterns and trends / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
- Contraception and female job-choice and career prospects / David Chessler
- Our species learns to be human : some societal and individual life-career implications / Florence A Ruderman
- Our species learns to be human / Esther Milner
- Comments on the "points of departure" / Virginia Olesen
- Part II: Feminine life-career and personality in a free-choice society: what are the most desireable model? Position paper: Models of sex equality / Alice S. Rossi
- Position paper: Out of the frying pan-? / Esther Milner
- Discussion / Margaret Mead (moderator)
- Part III: Impediments to women's development of new self-definitions and life-styles
- Position paper on cultural and psychological impediments: are mental health practitioners contributing to the problem? / Wilma Scott Heide
- Position paper on structural/institutional impediments / Roxane Dunbar
- Discussion / Melvin Tumin (moderator)
- Part IV: Directions of, and strategies toward, change
- Position paper: on the formation of RESPA / Esther Milner
- Discussion / Sandra S. Tangri (moderator)
- Part V: Next steps
- Position paper on additional directions and strategies requiring exploration: some egalitarian alternatives to androcentric science / Wilma Scott Heide
- Discussion / Catherine S. Chilman (moderator)
- Postscript: analysis and evaluation / Esther Milner
- Resource bibliography / Miriam G. Keiffer, Patricia A. Warren
- Kinsey subjects
- Fertility control--20th century 1960-1979. Changing role of women. Women and employment--20th century 1960-1979. Women conferences--New York--20th century 1960-1979.
- Subject headings
- New York.