Linda Seligmann Broken Links, Enduring Ties (Hardback)

by Linda Seligmann

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Further Details Title: Broken Links, Enduring Ties Condition: New Subtitle: American Adoption Across Race, Class, and Nation Author: Linda Seligmann Format: Hardback EAN: 9780804786058 ISBN: 9780804786058 Publisher: Stanford University Press Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences Release Date: 10/02/2013 Description: Family-making in America is in a state of flux—the ways people compose their families is changing, including those who choose to adopt. Broken Links, Enduring Ties is a groundbreaking comparative investigation of transnational and interracial adoptions in America. Linda Seligmann uncovers the impact of these adoptions over the last twenty years on the ideologies and cultural assumptions that Americans hold about families and how they are constituted. Seligmann explores whether or not new kinds of families and communities are emerging as a result of these adoptions, providing a compelling narrative on how adoptive families thrive and struggle to create lasting ties. Seligmann observed and interviewed numerous adoptive parents and children, non-adoptive families, religious figures, teachers and administrators, and adoption brokers. The book uncovers that adoption—once wholly stigmatized—is now often embraced either as a romanticized mission of rescue or, conversely, as simply one among multiple ways to make a family. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 590g Release Year: 2013 Missing Inform

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Year: 2013
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780804786058
• Condition: Fine

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