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Cultures of transnational adoption [electronic resource] / edited by Toby Alice Volkman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collectionPublication details: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.Description: 232 pISBN:
  • 9780822386926
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV875.5 .C86 2005
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Contents:
Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- Wedding citizenship and culture: Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim -- Embodying Chinese culture: transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao: the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson -- Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca -- Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall -- Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children": spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright -- Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- Wedding citizenship and culture: Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim -- Embodying Chinese culture: transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao: the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson -- Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca -- Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall -- Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children": spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright -- Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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