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

• 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
• ISBN: 1-282-44527-8; 9786612445279; 0-472-02463-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826207603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II