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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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Publisher
Paw Prints
Publication date
October 8, 2008
Pages
362
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Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781439559987
ISBN-10
1439559988
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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, 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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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
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
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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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