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Loading... The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered…by Ann Fessler
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Bleak as fuck. Rides the line between footnoted sociological academic text and personal history in the same genre that's taken to the extreme (to superb effect) in [Book: Mama Lola], tho this one ultimately falls on the side of academic objectivity. Nice usage of oral history. (  ) damsorrow | Jul 22, 2009 |  Bleak as fuck. Rides the line between footnoted sociological academic text and personal history in the same genre that's taken to the extreme (to superb effect) in [Book: Mama Lola], tho this one ultimately falls on the side of academic objectivity. Nice usage of oral history. ( ) damsorrow | Jul 22, 2009 | Bleak as fuck. Rides the line between footnoted sociological academic text and personal history in the same genre that's taken to the extreme (to superb effect) in [Book: Mama Lola], tho this one ultimately falls on the side of academic objectivity. Nice usage of oral history. ( ) damsorrow | Jul 22, 2009 | Bleak as fuck. Rides the line between footnoted sociological academic text and personal history in the same genre that's taken to the extreme (to superb effect) in [Book: Mama Lola], tho this one ultimately falls on the side of academic objectivity. Nice usage of oral history. ( ) damsorrow | Jul 22, 2009 | Fascinating! Thank you to the women who came forward to share their stories. You certainly enlightened my beliefs on reproductive issues, and provided a major piece of social history that otherwise may have never been recorded. It always shocks and amazes me how earlier generations of women were treated by their families and by society. Thank you for paving the way, and allowing me to have the freedoms that I do today. (  ) SandSing7 | Jul 13, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0143038974, Paperback)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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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