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Little strangers : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929
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Little strangers : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929

著者: Claudia Nelson
出版商: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
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"When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap help. Institutions housed young children but expected to place them as they became old enough to be useful; foster parents contracted to trade care for the child's services. But by 1929 - the first year that every state had an adoption law - the  再读一些...
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附加的形体格式: Online version:
Nelson, Claudia.
Little strangers.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003
(OCoLC)606956293
材料类型: 互联网资源
文件类型: 书, 互联网资源
所有的著者/提供者: Claudia Nelson
ISBN: 0253342244 9780253342249
OCLC号码: 50644005
描述: 212 p. ; 24 cm.
内容: The 1850s and their echoes : two case studies --
Money talks : the displaced child, 1860-1885 --
Melodrama and the displaced child, 1886-1906 --
Metaphor and the displaced child, 1886-1906 --
Adoption and women, 1907-1918 --
Adoption up to date : the rhetoric of mass individuality, 1919-1929.
责任: Claudia Nelson.

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"When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap help. Institutions housed young children but expected to place them as they became old enough to be useful; foster parents contracted to trade care for the child's services. But by 1929 - the first year that every state had an adoption law - the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. Adopting strangers' children had become commonplace, and infants, who perform no work, were now more readily placed than older children." "Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issues, including immigration and poverty, heredity and environment, individuality and citizenship, gender, and the family. She considers orphan fiction for children, magazine stories and articles, legal writings, social work conference proceedings, and discussions of heredity and child psychology. Nelson's ambitious scope provides for an analysis of the extent to which specialist and mainstream adoption discourse overlapped, as well as the ways in which adoption and foster care captivated the public imagination."--Jacket.

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