Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea : Virtual Mothering / / by Hosu Kim
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| Autore: |
Kim Hosu
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| Titolo: |
Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea : Virtual Mothering / / by Hosu Kim
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XIII, 245 p. 2 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethnography |
| Soggetto geografico: | Korea (South) |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | PART I: UNBECOMING MOTHERS: HISTORY OF GENDERED VIOLENCE -- 1. Secure the Nation; Secure the Family -- 2. Maternity Homes and the Birthplace of the Virtual Mother -- PART II: RECONNECTION: VIRTUAL MOTHERING -- 3. Television Mothers: Birth Mothers Lost and Found in the Search-and-Reunion Narrative -- 4. Performing Virtual Mothers and Forging Virtual Kinship -- 5. “I am a Mother but not a Mother”: The Paradox of Virtual Mothering. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book illuminates the hidden history of South Korean birth mothers involved in the 60-year-long practice of transnational adoption. The author presents a performance-based ethnography of maternity homes, a television search show, an internet forum, and an oral history collection to develop the concept of virtual mothering, a theoretical framework in which the birth mothers' experiences of separating from, and then reconnecting with, the child, as well as their painful,ambivalent narratives of adoption losses, are rendered, felt and registered. In this, the author refuses a universal notion of motherhood. Her critique of transnational adoption and its relentless effects on birth mothers’ lives points to the everyday, normalized, gendered violence against working-class, poor, single mothers in South Korea’s modern nation-state development and illuminates the biopolitical functions of transnational adoption in managing an "excess" population. Simultaneously, her creative analysis reveals a counter-public, and counter-history, proposing the collective grievances of birth mothers. . |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea |
| ISBN: | 1-137-53852-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910148603503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture