Cultures of transnational adoption / edited by Toby Alice Volkman.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Physical Description: | 232 p. |
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Table of 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.