| Description |
232 p. |
| Series |
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- Wedding citizenship and culture: Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim -- Embodying Chinese culture: transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao: the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson -- Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca -- Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall -- Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children": spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright -- Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Intercountry adoption.
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Cognition and culture.
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Kinship.
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Transnationalism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Volkman, Toby Alice, 1948-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780822386926 |
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0822386925 |
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082233576X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780822335764 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0822335891 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822335894 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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