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9780415926768
Wake Up Little Susie
by Solinger, Rickie
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- ISBN-13: 9780415926768
- ISBN: 0415926769
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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.Solinger, Rickie is the author of 'Wake Up Little Susie ' with ISBN 9780415926768 and ISBN 0415926769.
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