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Adopting maternity : white women who adopt transracially or transnationally /

Discusses the issues related to race, class, and gender involved in adoption based on in-depth interviews with 22 adoptive mothers. This text compares and contrasts the experiences of white women who adopted Asian, black, or biracial children. The bulk of the book is dedicated to presenting the wome...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moosnick, Nora Rose
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
Subjects:
Interracial adoption > United States.
Intercountry adoption > United States.
Women, White > United States.
Adoptive parents > United States.
Adoption interraciale > États-Unis.
Adoption internationale > États-Unis.
Blanches > États-Unis.
Adoptive parents.
Intercountry adoption.
Interracial adoption.
Women, White.
United States.
Interethnische Adoption
Weibliche Weiße
USA.
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Summary:Discusses the issues related to race, class, and gender involved in adoption based on in-depth interviews with 22 adoptive mothers. This text compares and contrasts the experiences of white women who adopted Asian, black, or biracial children. The bulk of the book is dedicated to presenting the women's words as they talk about their perceptions of fertility treatments, birth mothers, other mothers, adoption processes, and outsiders' reactions, among other matters. Feminist discourse is used to examine the applicability of these theories to women's self-characterizations.
Physical Description:xiv, 174 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168) and index.
ISBN:0275978125
9780275978129