Anne Fessler "Everlasting"

[me b zola]

Wonderful art piece that focuses on the women from the Baby Scoop Era.

[me b zola]

1. One of the many things that I like about this video

Is that the artist discusses this as a women's/feminist issue.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Thank you. n/t

[me b zola]

3. The artist, Ann Fessler, is also the author of 'The Girls Who Went Away'

'The Girls Who Went Away'

In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of thousands of young single American women forced to give up their newborn children in the years following World War II and before Roe v. Wade. The Girls Who Went Away tells a story not of wild and carefree sexual liberation, but rather of a devastating double standard that has had punishing long-term effects on these women and on the children they gave up for adoption. Based on Fessler's groundbreaking interviews, it brings to brilliant life these women's voices and the spirit of the time, allowing each to share her own experience in gripping and intimate detail. Today, when the future of the Roe decision and women's reproductive rights stand squarely at the front of a divisive national debate, Fessler brings to the fore a long-overlooked history of single women in the fifties, sixties, and early seventies.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Girls-Who-Went-Away/dp/1594200947