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



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Titolo: Adoption in America : historical perspectives / / edited by E. Wayne Carp Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2002
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina: 362.73
Soggetto topico: Adoption - United States - History
Adoptees - United States - History
Altri autori: CarpE. Wayne <1946->  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Adoption in America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-44527-8
9786612445279
0-472-02463-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826207603321
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