Joy Dryfoos papers
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates of Materials
- 1960 - 2008
Creator
- Dryfoos, Joy G. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
The Sophia Smith Collection owns copyright to the unpublished works by the creator of this collection. Copyright to materials created by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Biographical / Historical
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).
Extent
18.021 linear feet (19 containers)
Language of Materials
English
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.
Arrangement
This collection has been added to over time in multiple "accessions." An accession is a group of materials received from the same source at approximately the same time.
Processing Information
Between September 2022 and February 2023, Smith College Special Collections renumbered many boxes to eliminate duplicate numbers within collections in order to improve researcher experience. A full crosswalk of old to new numbers is available.
- Abortion -- Research
- Alan Guttmacher Institute
- Alan Guttmacher Institute
- Birth control -- Research
- Books
- Dryfoos, Joy G.
- Financial records
- Girls
- Juvenile delinquency -- United States
- Memorandums
- Notes
- Oral histories
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Reproductive and sexual health
- Research
- Speeches.
- Teenage pregnancy -- United States
- Teenagers -- Research -- United States
- Writings
- articles
- correspondence
- reports
- Title
- Joy Dryfoos papers
- Subtitle
- Finding Aid
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Revision Statements
- 07/26/2017: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2017-07-26T17:48:14-04:00: This record was migrated from InMagic DB Textworks to ArchivesSpace.
- 2021-06-30: Added content description from accession inventories
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository
