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Author Berebitsky, Julie.

Title Like our very own : adoption and the changing culture of motherhood, 1851-1950 / Julie Berebitsky.

Imprint Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.734 B451l    ---  Available
 FSCC Non-Fiction  362.734 Ber 2000    ---  Available
Description viii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.
Contents Fear, fulfillment, and defining "family" : becoming an adoptive parent, the early years -- Rescue a child and save the nation : the social construction of adoption in the Delineator, 1907-1911 -- Redefining "real" motherhood : representation of adoptive mothers, 1900-1950 -- "Mother-women" or "man-haters"? The rise and fall of single adoptive mothers -- "The best" or "good enough"? Child-placing professionals, adoptive parents, and definitions of family, 1920-1950.
Subject Adoption.
Motherhood.
Adoptive parents.
ISBN 0700610510 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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