American Women — Reproductive rights

  • Abortion: a world view / Leslie Corsa, Jr.

    Leslie Corsa, Jr., M.D., Director of the Center for Population Planning at the University of Michigan, speaks at the Conference on Abortion and Human Rights in San Francisco January 9, 1966, discussing the need for liberalized abortion laws. The conference was held under the auspices of the Society for Humane Abortion. Technical production by Dan…

  • Sexual freedom: the middle road / Lester Kirkendall

    Dr. Lester Kirkendall, Professor of Family Life at Oregon State University and author of “The Problems of Remaining a Virgin,” gives a talk entitled “Sexual Freedom: The Middle Road” at the “The Pill and the Puritan Ethic” symposium held in San Francisco on February 12, 1967. His talk attacks both the Puritan right and the…

  • The ethics of sexual freedom / Joseph Fletcher

    Joseph Fletcher, S.T.D., Professor of Social Ethics at the Episcopal Theology School, Cambridge, Mass., and author of the controversial book “Situation Ethics: The New Morality,” gives a talk entitled “The Ethics of Sexual Freedom” at the “The Pill and the Puritan Ethic” symposium held in San Francisco on February 11, 1967. He talks on the…

  • Your end of the boat is sinking: the problem of population / Paul Ehrlich

    Excerpts from an address on the population crisis by Paul R. Ehrlich, Professor of Biology at Stanford, delivered to the Stanford Summer Alumni College on August 3, 1967. Ehrlich discusses man’s attempts to manipulate ecosystems and our environment, the effect our energy consumption has on the earth, and the effect that decreasing the birth rate…

  • Profiles of the vanishing father / Michael Lerner (Episode 6 of 15)

    Part 6 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 4 of “The Enduring and Ephemeral in Women’s Life.” In this recording, Max Lerner, Ph.D.(1902-1992), Max Richter Professor of American Civilization, College of Arts and Sciences,…

  • Children: in dreams come unexpected responsibilities / Gail Putney (Episode 7 of 15)

    Part 7 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 5 of “The Enduring and Ephemeral in Women’s Life.” In this recording Gail J. Putney, Assistant Professor of Sociology at San Jose State College presents “Children:…

  • Suffocation in suburbia 1: introduction / Sripati Chandrasekhar (Episode 9 of 15)

    Part 9 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 1 of “Suffocation in Suburbia.” In this recording Sripati Chandrasekha, Ph.D.(1918-2001), Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, U.C. Riverside, member of Parliament, New Dehli, India, and Director…

  • Suffocation in suburbia 2: the march of the wooden house / Paul Bigelow Sears (Episode 10 of 15)

    Part 10 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 2 of “Suffocation in Suburbia.” In this recording Paul Bigelow Sears (1891-1990), Professor of Conservation, Emeritus, Yale University, presents “The March of the Wooden House,” a…

  • Suffocation in suburbia 5: dimensions of living space / Irene Taeuber (Episode 13 of 15)

    Part 13 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 5 of “Suffocation in Suburbia.” In this recording Irene Barnes Taeuber, Ph.D. (1906-1974), Research Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University presents “Dimensions of Living Space,”…

  • Suffocation in suburbia 6: social function and social role in the urban sprawl / Jules Henry (Episode 14 of 15)

    Part 14 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 6 of “Suffocation in Suburbia.” In this recording Jules Henry, Ph.D.(1904-1969), Professor, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) presents “Social Function and Social Role…