Wake Up Little Susie

Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v Wade
1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-415-90448-3
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Solinger, Rickie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Introduction: Female and Fertile in the Fifties, Chapter 1. The Stick and the Carrot: Public Meanings of Black and White Single Pregnancy in the Pre-Roe v. Wade Era, Chapter 2. The Making of the Matriarchy'': The Persistence of Biological Explanations for Black Single Pregnancy, Chapter 3. The Girl Nobody Loved: Psychological Explanations for White Single Pregnancy, Chapter 4. Behind the Fence: Maternity Homes, 1945-65, Chapter 5. The Disposition of Illegitimate Babies I: The Postwar Adoption Mandate, Chapter 6. The Disposition of Illegitimate Babies II: A Taxpayers' Issue, Chapter 7. The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution: Toward Choice, Notes, Bibliographic Essay, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

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