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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Fessler, Ann.     Subjects     Birthmothers -- United States.     Adoption -- United States -- Psychological aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fessler, Ann.       by title:      The girls who went a...         MARC Display

The girls who went away : the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade / Ann Fessler. by Fessler, Ann. New York : Penguin Press, 2006. Subjects Birthmothers -- United States.   Adoption -- United States -- Psychological aspects. ISBN:  1594200947 : dc $24.95 Description:  354 p. ; 25 cm. Requests:  1 Summary:  This book brings to light the lives of 1.5 million single American women in the years following World War II who, under enormous social and family pressure, were coerced to give up their newborn children. It tells not of wild and carefree sexual liberation, but rather of a devastating double standard that has had punishing long-term effects on these women and on the children they gave up. Single pregnant women were shunned by family and friends, evicted from schools, sent away to maternity homes to have their children alone, and often treated with cold contempt by doctors, nurses, and clergy. The majority of the women interviewed by Fessler, herself an adoptee, have never spoken of their experiences, and most have been haunted by grief and shame their entire adult lives.--From publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 362.8298 Fe Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.8298 Fessler Transit Request Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.8298 Fe Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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