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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.

Dorothy D. Lee, Ph.D., Visiting Professor in Psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, delivers a talk on the psychological pressures for women to become mothers at The Challenge to Women: The Biological Avalanche conference held in San Francisco on January 23, 1965.

Part 3 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.

Poet Eve Merriam (1916-1992) talks about birth control, education, and the role of women in society in this keynote speech, which begins KPFA's presentation of the University of California Medical Center's Conference held in San Francisco this year. Eve Merriam is the author of After Nora slammed the door, which is an analysis of American women.

Elizabeth Boyden Howes (1907-2002) was a Jungian psychotherapist and founder of the Guild for Psychological Studies in San Francisco. Howes had been in practice in the Bay Area since 1944 and co-editor of The Choice Is Always Ours (R. R. Smith, 1948), and co-edited And A Time To Die (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961).