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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 362.8298 EAN: 9780143038979 ISBN: 0143038974 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: June 26, 2007 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Editorial Review: 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, 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Eye-opening and compassionateAnn Fessler did an incredible job researching and presenting the secretive facts behind out-of-wedlock pregnancies during the 40's, 50's & 60's. This book is a MUST-READ for any one who's life has ever been touched by adoption. It reaches out to birth mothers who were never able to share their dark secret....it presents understanding to the rest of us who simply didn't know what they went through and still struggle with. Rating: - AdoptionThis is an important contribution not only for the stories of mothers who reliquished their children for adoption but for the analysis of the culture of the time between 1930 and the early 70s. The shift from church groups who helped mother and child stay together to the more "professional" social worker who separated mother and child is well documented. The rationale created by the "professionals" is scary. This book is a must read for all those mothers who relinquished thier children and for ... Read More Rating: - Now, more than ever, read this book!For whatever reason, Amazon has not incorporated the reviews from the hardcover edition of this book onto the release of the paperback, which gives me the opportunity to again encourage everyone to READ THIS BOOK, especially now, when many schools are prohibitted from, and many parents refuse to, teach basic sex education. And the Supreme Court is hanging by a thread contingent on the next Presidential election. This reviewer is shocked, chagrinned, and embarassed by generations of females behind ... Read More Rating: - my storyI bought this book to validate the feelings I experienced surrendering my daughter 37 years ago - although it took my breath away reconnecting with the pain, I also found I wasn't alone. A wonderful complimentary tool to those seeking therapy to cope with the loss of a child through adoption. Rating: - The Girls Who Went AwayEvery heart rending story is told by a birth mother who was made to feel ashamed and guilty about her pregnancy before marriage. Most of these young women were coerced into giving their babies up for adoption. These are eye-opening accounts of young women abandoned by their families, lovers and the social systems of the time. |
