Blue-ribbon babies and labors of love
Subtitle: race, class, and gender in U.S. adoption practice
By: Christine Ward Gailey.
Series: Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series -- bk. 22
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292721272
Subjects: Adoption -- United States; Interethnic adoption -- United States; Intercountry adoption -- United States; Families -- United States; Kinship -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Profiling adoption in the United States today; title: "Kids need families to turn out right": public agency adopters; title: Transracial adoption in practice; title: Making kinship in the wake of history: older child adoption; title: The global search for "blue-ribbon babies": international adoption; title: Inclusive, exclusive, and contractual families: what adoption can tell us about kinship today.