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Author:

Herman, Ellen, 1957-

Title:

Kinship by design : a history of adoption in the modern United States / Ellen Herman.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xii, 381 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Adoption--United States--History--20th century.
Orphans--United States--History--20th century.
Adoptie.
Verenigde Staten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index.

Contents:

The perils of money and sentiment (and custom, accident, impulse, intuition, common sense, faith, and bad blood) -- Making adoption governable -- Rules for realness -- Matching and the mirror of nature -- The measure of other people's children -- Adoption revolutions -- The difference difference makes -- Damaged children, therapeutic lives -- Reckoning with risk.

ISBN:

9780226327600 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226327604 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226327594 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226327590 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)191898081

LCCN:

2008002077

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)