LEADER 02612nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910815480603321 005 20230617030558.0 010 $a1-282-07206-4 010 $a9786612072062 010 $a0-253-10557-9 010 $a0-253-10980-9 035 $a(CKB)111087026942658 035 $a(EBL)151943 035 $a(OCoLC)52966391 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000193307 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11167631 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193307 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10219096 035 $a(PQKB)10378737 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC151943 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16612 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL151943 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10026398 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207206 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087026942658 100 $a20020913d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLittle strangers$b[electronic resource] $eportrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 /$fClaudia Nelson 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-34224-4 320 $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 $aAdoption in literature 615 0$aAdoption$xHistory. 615 0$aOrphans$xHistory. 615 0$aAdoption in literature. 676 $a362.73/4/0973 700 $aNelson$b Claudia$01617517 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815480603321 996 $aLittle strangers$93948733 997 $aUNINA