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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Toby Alice Volkman |
| ISBN: | 082233576X 9780822335764 0822335891 9780822335894 |
| OCLC Number: | 56924760 |
| Description: | 232 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Toby Alice Volkman. |
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