{"product_id":"wake-up-little-susie-by-rickie-solinger-9780415904483","title":"Wake Up Little Susie","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRickie 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuch 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncorporating 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, \u003cem\u003eWake Up Little Susie\u003c\/em\u003e offers readers an arena to explore the intersections of female biology and social constructions of gender, race, and class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47588834672876,"sku":"9780415904483","price":170.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780415904483-wake-up-little-susie.jpg?v=1777599027","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/wake-up-little-susie-by-rickie-solinger-9780415904483","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}