mnsss241 Joy Dryfoos Papers, 1960-2001 (ongoing) Finding Aid Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Northampton, MA
© 2005

Smith College. All rights reserved.

 Finding aid exported into EAD from InMagic DB/Textworks 7.01. Encoded by Margaret Jessup and Jennifer Smar. 2006-04-07 Finding aid written in English. Sophia Smith CollectionSmith College Joy Dryfoos Papers, 1960-2001 (ongoing) (bulk dates 1970s) Finding Aid MS 407 2005 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Collection Overview Dryfoos, Joy G. Joy Dryfoos Papers1960-2001 (ongoing) 1970s MS 407 14 boxes (16.5 linear ft.) English Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College Northampton, MA
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. 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).

 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.

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The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

This collection has not been fully processed and therefore may be difficult to use.

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Joy Dryfoos Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

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 Search Terms Abortion--Research--Sources Birth control--Research--Sources Juvenile delinquency--United States--History--Sources Teenage pregnancy--United States--History--Sources Teenagers--Research--United States--Sources Dryfoos, Joy G. Alan Guttmacher Institute--History--Sources Planned Parenthood Federation of America--History--Sources

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

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