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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820173703321

Autore

Moosnick Nora Rose

Titolo

Adopting maternity : white women who adopt transracially or transnationally / / Nora Rose Moosnick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2004

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-60700-4

1-281-10584-8

9786611105846

0-313-03918-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Disciplina

362.734

Soggetti

Adoptive parents - United States

Intercountry adoption - United States

Interracial adoption - United States

Women, White - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Social constructionism: contextualizing the context -- The process of becoming a mother -- On being a mother.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines issues surrounding adoption across racial and national lines and contrasts this with monoracial adoption, and provides feminist analysis of the experience of mothering adopted children.