Wake Up Little Susie
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Wake Up Little Susie

Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade

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Wake Up Little Susie

Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade

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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 Susie reveals how current attitudes toward these issues developed by examining their roots in the postwar era and discerning how differently they affected black and white women. A powerful and shocking book, Susie is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the complex and disturbing politics surrounding issues of race, class and reproductive rights. This new edition includes a foreword by the esteemed social historian, Elaine Tyler May, and an afterword by the author that places the issues examined in Susie in the context of the current controversies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781135292232
Edition
2
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: Female and Fertile in the Fifties
  9. Chapter 1. The Stick and the Carrot: Public Meanings of Black and White Single Pregnancy in the Pre–Roe v. Wade Era
  10. Chapter 2. The Making of the “Matriarchy”: The Persistence of Biological Explanations for Black Single Pregnancy
  11. Chapter 3. The Girl Nobody Loved: Psychological Explanations for White Single Pregnancy
  12. Chapter 4. Behind the Fence: Maternity Homes, 1945–65
  13. Chapter 5. The Disposition of Illegitimate Babies I: The Postwar Adoption Mandate
  14. Chapter 6. The Disposition of Illegitimate Babies II: A Taxpayer's Issue
  15. Chapter 7. The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution: Toward Choice
  16. Afterword: The Legacy of Racialized Single Motherhood—1950s and Beyond
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliographic Essay
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index