Social role and the search for identity / Mirra Komarovsky (Episode 3 of 15)

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. This is Part 1 of "The Enduring and Ephemeral in Women's Life." In this recording Mirra Komarovsky, Ph.D (1906-1999), Professor of Sociology, Barnard College, New York, NY gives a talk entitled "Social Role and the Search for Identity".

Notes on label: "Unnecessary problems which persist because we can't cope with social changes. History of women 1890 to present (history with work, children, etc.). Revolution in family cycle. Search for new self at middle age. New adaptations."