The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143038979 (0143038974)
ASIN: 143038974
Publish date: June 26th 2007
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
History,
Book Club,
Feminism,
Parenting,
Sociology,
Womens,
Adoption,
Gender,
Womens Studies
Moving, honest, learned so much about something I didn't think of/didn't know.
This was a fast read, but heartbreaking look at the America's "golden era" (post-WWII to 1973). The author is an artist and art professor who works mainly in video and photography; this book is more or less a literary version of her gallery work. It is also deeply personal, as the author was one of ...
I read this book in 5 hours, it was so engrossing. It made me think of a side of adoption that honestly never occurred to me. It never crossed my mind, even being a child of adoption, that the birth mother would still be in pain about it so many years later. I said a prayer for my birth mother this ...
Very powerful and moving.
Not sure why I picked this up in the bookstore- it was on one of the tables, and looked interesting.I picked it up, leafed through, and then I was hooked- I found it in the library, and basically wolfed it in one afternoon.A careful, insightful study of what women went through in the 50's and 60's, ...
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