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Wake up Little Susie Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe V. Wade

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ISBN-10: 0415926769

ISBN-13: 9780415926768

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Rickie Solinger

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"Rickie Solinger's passionate and powerful history serves to remind us of the importance of the feminist efforts that led to Roe v. Wade and the many other measures that have liberated women from the constraints of the past." -From the new foreword by Elaine Tyler May Twenty-five years after the Supreme Court's landmark decision, abortion rights are as fiercely contested as ever and current debates over welfare, workfare, and public assistance to women with children demonstrate the way in which race and class continue to effect women's reproductive freedom. A pioneering work,Wake Up Little Susiereveals how current attitudes toward these issues developed by examining their roots in the…    
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List price: $39.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.06" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Rickie Solinger is the author ofPregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in AmericaandWake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Rose v. Wade,among other books. She is the editor ofAbortion Wars (UC Press). Paula C. Johnson is Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law and the author ofInner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison.Attorney Martha L. Raimon has directed the Incarcerated Mothers Law Project at the Women's Prison Association and is now Senior Associate at Center for the Study of Social Policy. Tina Reynolds is Co-founder and Chair of Women on the Rise Telling Her Story (WORTH) and adjunct lecturer at York College/CUNY.…    

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Female and Fertile in the Fifties
The Stick and the Carrot: Public Meanings of Black and White Single Pregnancy in the Pre-Roe v. Wade Era
The Making of the "Matriarchy": The Persistence of Biological Explanations for Black Single Pregnancy
The Girl Nobody Loved: Psychological Explanations for White Single Pregnancy
Behind the Fence: Maternity Homes, 1945-65
The Disposition of Illegitimate Babies I: The Postwar Adoption Mandate
The Disposition of Illegitimate Babies II: A Taxpayer's Issue
The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution: Toward Choice
Afterword: The Legacy of Racialized Single Motherhood--1950s and Beyond
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Bibliography
Index