The Girls Who Went Away : The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Fessler, Ann2007
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In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.
Main title:
Author:
Fessler, Ann, author
Imprint:
New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
Collation:
368 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
The Girls Who Went Away 1. My Own Story as an Adoptee 2. Breaking the Silence Dorothy II Annie 3. Good Girls v. Bad Girls Nancy I Claudia 4. Discovery and Shame Marge Yvonne 5. The Family's Fears Jeanette Ruth 6. Going Away Karen I Pam 7. Birth and Surrender Margaret Leslie 8. The Aftermath Susan III Madeline 9. Search and Reunion Susan II Jennifer 10. Talking and Listening Lydia Linda I 11. Every Mother but My Own <i>Afterword A Note on the Interviews Notes Acknowledgments Index</i>
ISBN:
9780143038979
Dewey class:
362.734
Language:
English
BRN:
2510359