A monthly series of discussions 2: The changing sex relationship
Widespread birth control, and the economic opportunities now open to women throughout their lives in advanced industrial societies, have produced new demands by women on the family and marriage. Will a substantial minority of women opt out of their present rote as mothers and partners in marriage, and will some of them choose different men to match up to their needs at different times of their lives? What are some of the likely effects on public and private responsibilities towards children? How will our male-orientated societies react?
DR G. M. CARSTAIRS, Vice-Chancellor University of York. and formerly Professor of Psychological Medicine. University of Edinburgh
JULIET MITCHELL, author of Woman's Estate and Psychoanalysis and feminism
AUDREY Richards, formerly Reader in Anthropology at Cambridge University, most of whose fieldwork was undertaken in Africa
In the chair Andrew Shonfield, of the Royal Institute of International Affairs
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF followed by an interlude