Includes topics such as abortion and its psychological effects, contraception, fertility, population, and sex education; also includes correspondence with the American Public Health Association. Records chiefly documenting the organization and management of the association's boards, committees, and publications.

Includes materials related to the work of physician Kate Waller Barrett with prostitutes through the National Florence Crittenton Mission. Papers related chiefly to Barrett's work with women's rights issues.

Includes the papers of physicians Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell and their pioneering efforts to open the medical profession to women, including their difficulties in establishing in 1854 the New York Infirmary for Women and Children with their colleague Dr. Marie Zakrzewska. Elizabeth and Emily wrote numerous pieces on women's health concerns.

Min Chueh Chang developed the birth control pill with Gregory Pincus and researched in vitro fertilization. Papers relating chiefly to Chang's career as a reproductive biologist with the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology (WFEB) in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and his personal life.

Includes materials related to the sociological study of birth control, particularly as a deterrent to population growth. Papers documenting Etzioni's career as a professor of sociology at George Washington and Columbia universities, at the Center for Policy Research, and as an advisor to President Jimmy Carter. Restrictions apply.

Correspondence, lectures, writings, and other papers relating primarily to Dixon Jones's career as a physician and surgeon, her legal difficulties, and her research and writings about diseases of the reproductive system. Subjects include her work as chief medical officer (1882-1884) and gynecologist (1884-1891) at the Woman's Hospital of Brooklyn.

Includes articles written about the mechanisms of birth control, and her examination of contraception from an anthropological perspective. Papers chiefly concerning anthropological and ethnological fieldwork. Restrictions apply.

Includes sociological and psychiatric studies on family planning. Papers documenting Moynihan's career in public service, higher education, and politics. Restrictions apply.

Papers documenting Kelsey's career, particularly as a researcher and regulator investigating new drugs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where she later served as director of the Division of Scientific Investigations. Includes material on her refusal to approve commercial distribution of thalidomide in the United States, a decision for which she received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service in 1962.

Gregory Pincus developed the birth control pill with Min Chueh Chang. Papers relating to Pincus's life and career, especially his role in developing and testing the contraceptive pill.

Correspondence, diaries, speeches, lectures, articles, organizational records, clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Sanger's activities on behalf of birth control in the U.S. and throughout the world. Includes material relating to national and international congresses and conferences organized by Sanger, her campaign to enlist public opinion and congressional support for federal legislation on birth control, and her participation in socialist politics and liberal reform groups.

Includes a transcript of a CBS report on "Birth Control and the Law" about the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, which covers the topic of public health and the health effects of birth control. Correspondence, fan mail, radio and television scripts, news analyses, lectures, speeches, writings, book and subject files, awards, genealogical material, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers.

Includes a Look Magazine report called “Parenthood, U.S.A.,” which investigated public health and how access to reproductive healthcare improves quality of life. Papers relating chiefly to Wiley's activities on behalf of women's rights as well as child welfare, consumer protection, and Indian rights.