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Autore |
Melosh Barbara |
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Titolo |
Strangers and kin [[electronic resource] ] : the American way of adoption / / Barbara Melosh |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 326 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Adoption - United States - History |
Adoption - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2002. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface Introduction 1. Wanted--A Child To Raise as Our Own: Claiming Strangers as Kin 2. Families by Design: "Fitness" and "Fit" in the Creation of Kin 3. The "Best Solution": Adoption Embraced 4. Redrawing the Boundaries: Transracial and International Adoption 5. "Tell It Slant": Adoption and Disclosure 6. Adoption Challenged: Beyond the Best Solution Epilogue Notes Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Strangers and Kin' is the history of adoption, a quintessentially American institution in its buoyant optimism, generous spirit and confidence in social engineering. Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. |
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