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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826207603321

Titolo

Adoption in America : historical perspectives / / edited by E. Wayne Carp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-44527-8

9786612445279

0-472-02463-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CarpE. Wayne <1946->

Disciplina

362.73

Soggetti

Adoption - United States - History

Adoptees - United States - History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: A Historical Overview of American Adoption; A Good Home: Indenture and Adoption in Nineteenth-Century Orphanages; Building a Nation, Building a Family: Adoption in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Literature; What's Love Got to Do with It?: "Adoption" in Victorian and Edwardian England; A Historical Comparison of Catholic and Jewish Adoption Practices in Chicago, 1833-1933; Rescue a Child and Save the Nation: The Social Construction of Adoption in the Delineator, 1907-1911

A Nation's Need for Adoption and Competing Realities: The Washington Children's Home Society, 1895-1915Adoption Agencies and the Search for the Ideal Family,1918-1965; When in Doubt, Count: World War II as a Watershed in the History of Adoption; Adoption Stories: Autobiographical Narrative and the Politics of Identity; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Collects essays that provide an overview of the history of adoption in the United States.