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Author Herman, Ellen, 1957-

Title Kinship by design [electronic resource] : a history of adoption in the modern United States / Ellen Herman.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 381 p. : ill.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Orphans -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0226327590 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226327594 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226327604 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226327600 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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