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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
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Ann Fessler
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Penguin USA
Publication date
June 26, 2007
Pages
362
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780143038979
ISBN-10
0143038974
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.75 lbs.
Original list price
$17.00
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
The Baby Scoop Era: Unwed Mothers, Infant Adoption and Forced Surrender | Hole In My Heart: memoir and report from the fault lines of adoption | Journey of the Adopted Self | The Other Mother | Coming Home to Self | Being Adopted | The Primal Wound
The Baby Scoop Era: Unwed Mothers, Infant Adoption and Forced Surrender | Hole In My Heart: memoir and report from the fault lines of adoption | Journey of the Adopted Self | The Other Mother | Coming Home to Self | Being Adopted | The Primal Wound
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A critique of the consequences of policies enforced after World War II prior to Roe v. Wade, written by an adoptee, describes how countless single women were compelled to give up their children and how their situations were devastatingly compromised by the growing sexual revolution, limited birth control options, unrealistic social standards, and the unavailability of safe abortions. Reprint.
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Hardcover
from Penguin USA (May 4, 2006)
9781594200946 | details & prices | 354 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $24.95
About: This book brings to light the lives of 1.
About: This book brings to light the lives of 1.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Penguin USA (June 26, 2007)
9780143038979 | details & prices | 362 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $17.00
About: Describes how countless single women were compelled to give up their children for adoption in the years prior to Roe v.
About: Describes how countless single women were compelled to give up their children for adoption in the years prior to Roe v.
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (October 8, 2008)
9781439559987 | details & prices | 362 pages | List price $24.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
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