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

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...

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Main Author: Gailey, Christine Ward, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2010.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780292795143
0292795149
0292721277
9780292721272
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central

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505 0 |a 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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