Adoption, family and the paradox of origins
Subtitle: a Foucauldian history
By: Sally Sales
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230276253
Subjects: Open adoption; Adoptees; Adoption; Identification
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the study; title: Family as cause and cure: the emergence of adoption; title: Contested involvements: adoption before the Second World War; title: Differences denied: the normalisation of adoption; title: Differences and identities: the making of modern adoption; title: Contested attachments: the controversial emergence of "open adoption"; title: Introducing the archive study; title: Knowing or transforming the self: tracing letterbox contact; title: Identity through injury: unfit mothers and direct contact; title: Conclusions.