The Girls Who Went Away

Name: The Girls Who Went Away
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 9780143038979-PRUSDTR-US
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The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

Ann Fessler (Author) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

368 pages • 5.5 x 8.48 x 0.75 in

Approx. weight: 0.65 lb

Publication date: 26 Jun,2007

Barcode: 9780143038979 • Penguin Books

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Society/ culture/ social sciences

Gender studies: women and girls
Adoption and fostering
Adoption and fostering: advice and issues
Biography: general

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By: Ann Fessler

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.

“It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” —The Washington Post

“A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the hidden social history of adoption before Roe v. Wade - and its lasting legacy. 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.