Making families through adoption / / Nancy E. Riley, Krista E. Van Vleet
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| Autore: |
Riley Nancy
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| Titolo: |
Making families through adoption / / Nancy E. Riley, Krista E. Van Vleet
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| Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : Pine Forge, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 155 p.) : ill., maps |
| Disciplina: | 362.7340973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Adoption - United States |
| Families - United States | |
| Intercountry adoption | |
| Interracial adoption | |
| Interethnic adoption | |
| Adoption | |
| Altri autori: |
Van VleetKrista E. <1965->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Adoption across cultures -- Adoption in the United States : historical perspectives -- Adoption : private decisions, public influences -- Race, ethnicity, and racism in adoption and fosterage systems -- The practices of transnational adoption. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. It focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption practices into a comparative context. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Making families through adoption |
| ISBN: | 1-4833-4955-1 |
| 1-4522-3764-6 | |
| 1-4522-2464-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811338503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Contemporary Family Perspectives (CFP)