The girls who went away : the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade
Ann Fessler, an artist and adoptee, combines her work and personal history by interviewing women who had to give up their children in the years before the Roe vs. Wade decision. Fessler lets these women tell their stories for the first time and illuminates the social history that created the circumstances for so many women to be pressured to give up their children in the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies.