Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-168) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The Limits of Multiculturalism -- The Fortune Cookie and the Mandarin: Adoption in Modern Family and Sex and the City -- Just Another Asian (American) Woman in Better Luck Tomorrow and Sideways -- The Contingencies of Belonging: Soon-Yi Previn -- Reimagining Korean Adoption in Seoul Searching -- Twinsters and Adoptee Negotiations of the Desire for an Adoption Fairy Tale -- Coda: Disrupting Fantasies of Adoption.
Summary:
"Analyzes the media, cultural, and interpersonal mechanisms that contribute to the fetishization and commodification of adopted Asian American women's and girls' bodies through an examination of the 'nexus of objectification' at which they are situated in order to understand their racialized experiences and how they negotiate competing expectations of them as adoptees and hypersexualized Asian women"-- Provided by publisher.
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