Rickie Solinger

Wake Up Little Susie

Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book unravels the complex, disturbing reality of single pregnancy in the Post World War II era, exploring the way in which race, more than any other factor, defined the experience of unwed motherhood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780415926768
• ISBN-10: 0415926769
• Artikelnr.: 21643707

Autorenporträt

Rickie Solinger is also the author of The Abortionist: AWoman Against the Law and editor of Abortion Wars: A HalfCentury of Struggle, 1950-2000. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Female and Fertile in the Fifties; Chapter one Chapter One The
Stick and the Carrot: Public Meanings of Black and White Single Pregnancy
in the Pre-Roe v. Wade Era; Chapter Two Chapter Two The Making of the
"Matriarchy": The Persistence of Biological Explanations for Black Single
Pregnancy; Chapter Three Chapter Three The Girl Nobody Loved: Psychological
Explanations for White Single Pregnancy; Chapter Four Chapter Four Behind
the Fence: Maternity Homes, 1945-65; Chapter Five Chapter Five The
Disposition of Illegitimate Babies I: The Postwar White Adoption Mandate;
Chapter Six Chapter Six The Disposition of Illegitimate Babies II: A
Taxpayers' Issue; Chapter Seven Chapter Seven The Population Bomb and the
Sexual Revolution: Toward Choice; aft Afterword The Legacy of Racialized
Single Motherhood-1950s and Beyond;