Adoptive families in a diverse society
By: edited by Katarina Wegar.
Contributors: Wegar, Katarina.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813538419; 9780813538426
Subjects: Adoption -- United States; Family -- United States; Kinship -- United States; Adoptive parents -- United States; Adoption -- United States -- Public opinion; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States; Identity (Psychology) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Katarina Wegar; title: Adoption and the culture of genetic determinism / Barbara Katz Rothman; title: Family ideals and the social construction of modern adoption : a historical perspective / Julie Berebitsky; title: Adoption and public opinion : the role of community assessments for social support and policy development in adoption / Charlene Miall and Karen March; title: Adoption in the media : in need of editing / Adam Pertman; title: Urchins, orphans, monsters, and victims : depictions of adoptees in U.S. commercial film / Christine Ward Gailey; title: Adoption and identity in social context / Emily Upshur and Jack Demick; title: Adoptive fatherhood : gender, identity, and sociocultural considerations / Ramon Hinojosa, Melanie Sberna, and William Marsiglio; title: Family values : adoptive fatherhood and gay men in America / Ellen Lewin; title: Real mothers : adoptive mothers resisting marginalization and re-creating motherhood / Janet L. Surrey, Betsy Smith, and Mary Watkins; title: "Whatever they think of us, we're a family" : single mother adopters / Christine Ward Gailey; title: Family boundaries and open adoption / Deborah H. Siegel; title: Adoption, foster care, and guardianship in minority families / Sandra T. Azar and Lisa K. Hill; title: Interracial couples, multiracial people, and the color line in adoption / Heather Dalmage; title: My child, my choice : parental well-being in the adoption of children with developmental disabilities / Laraine M. Glidden; title: Identity, race, and language in adoption : ethical values in the power of language / Janet Farrell Smith; title: Adoption and identity : nomadic possibilities for reconceiving the self / Mary Watkins.