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Collection Overview

Administrative Information

Biographical Note

Scope and Contents of the Collection

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Joy Dryfoos Papers, 1960-2001 (ongoing)

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Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Collection Overview

Creator: Dryfoos, Joy G.
Title: Joy Dryfoos Papers
Dates: 1960-2001 (ongoing)
Dates: 1970s
Abstract: Researcher; Author; Reproductive health specialist. Papers contain extensive research and printed material, primarily from Dryfoos's work at the Alan Guttmacher Institute in the 1960s and 1970s. They include her working files on such subjects as family planning and abortion as well as numerous articles, reports, and speeches authored by Dryfoos.
Extent: 14 boxes(16.5 linear ft.)
Language: English
Identification: MS 407

Administrative Information

Associated material located in the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Records (Part II)

View transcript of interview with Joy Dryfoos conducted for the Carnegie Corporation Oral History, 1998 (part of Columbia University Oral History Research Office)

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Biographical Note

Joy Dryfoos is an independent researcher, writer, and lecturer. She received a B.A. in Sociology from Antioch College in 1951 and an M.A. in Urban Sociology from Sarah Lawrence College in 1966. In 1968 she was employed by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America as a researcher, and from 1969-81, she served as the Director of Research and Planning of the Alan Guttmacher Institute. Dryfoos has lectured and published extensively, particularly in the area of adolescents at risk. She is the author of: Teenage Pregnancy: The Problem That Hasn't Gone Away (1981); Adolescents at Risk (1990); Full Service Schools (1994); and Safe Passage: Making It Through Adolescence In a Risky Society (1998).

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

Papers contain extensive research and printed material, primarily from Dryfoos's work at the Alan Guttmacher Institute in the 1960s and 1970s. They include her working files on such subjects as family planning and abortion as well as numerous articles, reports, and speeches authored by Dryfoos.

NOTE: The container list for this collection is available in the Sophia Smith Collection. Please contact us to request a copy.

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