Wake Up Little Susie

Name: Wake Up Little Susie
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780415904483
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Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v Wade

By Rickie Solinger

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Wake Up Little Susie by Rickie Solinger examines maternity home programmes for unwed mothers between 1945 and 1965, highlighting how emerging cultural and political ideas like the "population bomb" and the "sexual revolution" shaped racially specific public policies. The book reveals a stark divide: white women were often encouraged to give up their babies, fuelling a booming adoption market, while black women were subjected to welfare policies aimed at keeping and limiting their families. Through a combination of social service and political perspectives alongside personal letters and poems from the women affected, this work explores the complex intersections of female biology, gender, race, and class.
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This book is essential for readers interested in social history, gender studies, race relations, and public policy. Scholars and students exploring the mid-20th century societal attitudes toward unwed motherhood and adoption will find it particularly insightful.

Rickie Soliger seeks to unravel the complex, disturbing reality of single parent 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.

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Rickie Solinger provides an analysis of maternity home programmes for unwed mothers from 1945 to 1965, as well as examining 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.

Incorporating the responses of social service and political professionals of this era to the "crisis" of out-of-wedlock pregnancy with letters, poems, and statements from the pregnant women themselves, Wake Up Little Susie offers readers an arena to explore the intersections of female biology and social constructions of gender, race, and class.

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ISBN: 9780415904483

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 February 1992

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 780g

Pages: 336

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Rickie Solinger

About the Author

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.

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