Originally published: 2006
Genre: Biography
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Book overview ... The astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure ...
Ann Fessler's “The Girls Who Went Away” is filled with heartbreaking stories of unmarried women who gave up their babies for adoption from 1945 to 1973, when ...
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In this compulsively readable book, Fessler related story after story of women who were given no choice but to surrender their baby. The stigma women faced for ...
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Wade is a 2006 book by Ann Fessler which describes and recounts the experiences of women in the United States who relinquished babies for adoption between 1950 ...
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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 ...
Feb 13, 2022 · The girls who went away. The book contains nine chapters examining the social context surrounding sex, family status, maternity homes, and more ...
Jun 11, 2006 · An oral history of women who were forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950's and 60's.
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