Kinship by design
Subtitle: a history of adoption in the modern United States
By: Ellen Herman.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780226327594; 9780226327600
Subjects: Adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Orphans -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The perils of money and sentiment (and custom, accident, impulse, intuition, common sense, faith, and bad blood); title: Making adoption governable; title: Rules for realness; title: Matching and the mirror of nature; title: The measure of other people's children; title: Adoption revolutions; title: The difference difference makes; title: Damaged children, therapeutic lives; title: Reckoning with risk.