Adoptive families in a diverse society / / edited by Katarina Wegar [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 289 p. )
• Disciplina: 362.7340973
• Soggetto topico: Adoption - United States; Families - United States; Kinship - United States; Adoptive parents - United States; Adoption - United States - Public opinion; Cultural pluralism - United States; Identity (Psychology) - United States
• Altri autori: WegarKatarina
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Katarina Wegar -- Adoption and the culture of genetic determinism / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Family ideals and the social construction of modern adoption : a historical perspective / Julie Berebitsky -- Adoption and public opinion : implications for social support and practice in adoption / Charlene E. Miall and Karen March -- Adoption in the media : in need of editing / Adam Pertman -- Urchins, orphans, monsters, and victims : images of adoptive families in U.S. commercial films, 1950-2000 / Christine Ward Gailey -- Adoption and identity in social context / Emily Upshur and Jack Demick -- Adoptive fatherhood : gender, identity, and sociocultural considerations / Ramon Hinojosa, Melanie Sberna, and William Marsiglio -- Family values : gay men and adoption in America / Ellen Lewin -- "Real" mothers : adoptive mothers resisting marginalization and recreating motherhood / Betsy Smith, Janet L. Surrey, and Mary Watkins -- "Whatever they think of us, we're a family" : single mother adopters / Christine Ward Gailey -- Open adoption and family boundaries / Deborah H. Siegel -- Adoption, foster care, and guardianship in minority families / Sandra T. Azar and Lisa K. Hill -- Interracial couples, multiracial people, and the color line in adoption / Heather M. Dalmage -- My child, my choice : parental well-being in the adoption of children with developmental disabilities / Laraine Masters Glidden -- Identity, race, and culture in adoption : ethical values in the power of language / Janet Farrell Smith -- Adoption and identity : nomadic possibilities for reconceiving the self / Mary Watkins.
• Titolo autorizzato: Adoptive families in a diverse society
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910170975903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II