Unequal motherhoods and the adoption of Asian children : birth, foster, and adoptive mothers / Gill, Jungyun.

Unequal motherhoods and the adoption of Asian children : birth, foster, and adoptive mothers /

This book explores adoption of Asian children by white Americans, looking at multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different positions of class, race, and nationality and bringing to light the interdependencies and inequalities of the moth...

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Main Author: Gill, Jungyun (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]
Subjects:
Adopted children > Korea (South)
Intercountry adoption > United States.
Interracial adoption > United States.
Interracial adoption > Korea (South)
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Historical and Social Contexts of the Institutionalization of Korea-to-U.S. Adoption; 2 Birth Mothers in Korea; 3 Foster Mothers in Korea; 4 Adoptive Mothers in the United States; 5 Adoptive and Birth Mothers' Adoption Storytelling; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

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