The Girls Who Went Away

The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Adoption, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Ann Fessler ISBN: 9781101644294
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: June 26, 2007
Imprint: Penguin Books Language: English
Author: Ann Fessler
ISBN: 9781101644294
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: June 26, 2007
Imprint: Penguin Books
Language: English

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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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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