Bibliograph

Cultures of transnational adoption, edited by Toby Alice Volkman

Type

Label

Cultures of transnational adoption, edited by Toby Alice Volkman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cultures of transnational adoption

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

56924760

Responsibility statement

edited by Toby Alice Volkman

Summary

The experiences in this volume consider how trans-national adoption creates and transforms cultures, in the light of the vast increase in their number

Table Of 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

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Contributor