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Blue-ribbon babies and labors of love : race, class, and gender in U.S. adoption practice
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Blue-ribbon babies and labors of love : race, class, and gender in U.S. adoption practice

Author: Christine Ward Gailey
Publisher: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Series: Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series, bk. 22.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Most Americans assume that shared genes or blood relationships provide the strongest basis for family. What can adoption tell us about this widespread belief and American kinship in general? This  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Christine Ward Gailey
ISBN: 9780292721272 0292721277 0292725701 9780292725706
OCLC Number: 318870285
Description: xi, 185 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series, bk. 22.
Responsibility: Christine Ward Gailey.

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