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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade Paperback - 2007
by Ann Fessler
This powerful revelation uncovers the astonishing, untold history of the million-and-a-half women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before "Roe v. Wade."
Summary
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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- Title The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
- Author Ann Fessler
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, U.S.A.
- Date 2007-07-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143038979 / 0143038974
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 5.58 x 0.8 in (21.39 x 14.17 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Adoption
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Adoption - United States - Psychological, Birthmothers - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.829
Media reviews
Journalism of the first order, moving and informative in equal measure. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book. (The New York Times Book Review)
A wrenching, riveting book. (Chicago Tribune)
Haunting. (People)
A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book. (The New York Times Book Review)
A wrenching, riveting book. (Chicago Tribune)
Haunting. (People)
Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 08/12/2007, Page 24
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