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200 10$aLittle strangers $eportrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 /$fClaudia Nelson
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (225 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aThe 1850s and their echoes : two case studies -- Money talks : the displaced child, 1860-1885 -- Melodrama and the displaced child, 1886-1906 -- Metaphor and the displaced child, 1886-1906 -- Adoption and women, 1907-1918 -- Adoption up to date : the rhetoric of mass individuality, 1919-1929.
330   $aWhen Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929 -- the first year that every state had an adoption law -- the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issues
606   $aAdoption$zUnited States$xHistory
606   $aOrphans$zUnited States$xHistory
606   $aAdoption in literature
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615  0$aOrphans$xHistory.
615  0$aAdoption in literature.
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