Wake Up Little Susie
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A01=Rickie Solinger
adoption practices
Author_Rickie Solinger
black
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gender and public policy
home
intersectionality in reproductive rights
maternity
mother
mothers
postwar social policy
pregnancy
racial disparities
reproductive justice
single
unmarried
unwed
welfare state history
white
Product details
- ISBN 9780415904483
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Feb 1992
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rickie Solinger provides the first published analyses of maternity home programs for unwed mothers from 1945 to 1965, and examines how nascent cultural and political constructs such as the "population bomb" and the "sexual revolution" reinforced racially-specific public policy initiatives. Such initiatives encouraged white women to relinquish their babies, spawning a flourishing adoption market, while they subjected black women to social welfare policies which assumed they would keep their babies and aimed to prevent them from having more.
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.
