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

Author/Creator Herman, Ellen, 1957-
Publication Info Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.
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Location Call Number Status Loan Type Notes Barcode
 UNT ONLINE RESOURCES  HV875.55 .H47 2008eb   Nearby Items  ONLINE  ---  Single User Access
Subjects Adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Orphans -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Physical Description 1 online resource.
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Family Making in an Age of Uncertainty -- Pt. I Regulation and Interpretation, 1900-1945 -- 1. Perils of Money and Sentiment (and Custom, Accident, Impulse, Intuition, Common Sense, Faith, and Bad Blood) -- 2. Making Adoption Governable -- 3. Rules for Realness -- Pt. II Standardization and Naturalization, 1930-1960 -- 4. Matching and the Mirror of Nature -- 5. Measure of Other People's Children -- Pt. III Difference and Damage, 1945-1975 -- 6. Adoption Revolutions -- 7. Difference Difference Makes -- 8. Damaged Children, Therapeutic Lives -- Epilogue: Reckoning with Risk.
Other Formats Original 0226327590 9780226327594 0226327604 9780226327600
OCLC Number ybp3076337
(MiAaPQ)EBC448551
(OCoLC)567989932
ISBN 9780226328072 (electronic bk.)
0226328074 (electronic bk.)

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