race, class, and gender in U.S. adoption practice /
First Statement of Responsibility
Christine Ward Gailey.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Austin, TX :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Texas Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xi, 185 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ;
Volume Designation
bk. 22
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Profiling adoption in the United States today -- "Kids need families to turn out right": public agency adopters -- Transracial adoption in practice -- Making kinship in the wake of history: older child adoption -- The global search for "blue-ribbon babies": international adoption -- Inclusive, exclusive, and contractual families: what adoption can tell us about kinship today.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book examines the ways class, gender, and race shape public and private adoption in the United States. The author analyzes the controversies surrounding international, public, and transracial adoption, and how the political and economic dynamics that shape adoption policies and practices affect the lives of people in the adoption nexus: adopters, adoptees, birth parents, and agents within and across borders.