Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade - Hardcover

Solinger, Rickie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138147141 ISBN 13: 9781138147140

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"A stunning but troubling book that illuminates the deeply racialized terrain on which the politics of women's reproductive capacities and decisions have been played out. Contributing mightily to contemporary social policy debates, this rich history of single pregnancy from 1945 to 1965 warns us that reproductive rights must not only guard each woman's choice to contracept or to terminate a pregnancy, but also must win honor and social support for each woman's choice to become a mother."
-Gwendolyn Mink, author of "Welfare's End
"It is impossible to read "Wake Up Little Susie without understanding that racism as well as a deeply felt distrust of women as mothers--magnified when the women are not formally subordinated to husbands--makes such odd national passions possible."
-Bernice L. Hausman, "Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, vol 4.1

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138147141
• ISBN 13: 9781138147140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 364