Note 5 retrouvez the girls who went away the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before roe v wade et des millions de livres en stock sur amazonfr achetez neuf ou doccasion. The result of years of research and more than one hundred interviews fesslers new book the girls who went away the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before roe v wade is an astonishing oral history that brings to light the dark undercurrent of life in americas postwar middle class denied adequate sex education shamed by socially conformist parents and peers and without legal access to abortion fesslers subjects emerge as the . Fessler an adoptee began a project in which she interviewed women who placed children for adoption between the end of world war ii and the roe v wade decision the transcribed stories are heartbreaking and its horrifying to see how these women were treated by their families by society by medical staff and by the social workers at the maternity homes where many of them spent their pregnancies its an eye opening read and is food for thought regarding what has and hasnt changed since the. 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 adopteeread more . The girls who went away the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before roe v wade front cover suggested reading list dr tracy l carlis fessler ann the girls who went away the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before roe v wade 2006