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Little strangers [[electronic resource] ] : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 / / Claudia Nelson



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Autore: Nelson Claudia Visualizza persona
Titolo: Little strangers [[electronic resource] ] : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 / / Claudia Nelson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina: 362.73/4/0973
Soggetto topico: Adoption - United States - History
Orphans - United States - History
Adoption in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: The 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.
Sommario/riassunto: When 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
Titolo autorizzato: Little strangers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-07206-4
9786612072062
0-253-10557-9
0-253-10980-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780261603321
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