This Section Includes: I. Brief Table of Contents II. Detailed Table of Contents     I. Brief Table of Contents   Introduction   Chapter 1: Adoption Across Cultures   Chapter 2: Adoption in the United States:  Historical Perspectives   Chapter 3: Adoption: Private Decisions, Public Influences   Chapter 4: Race. Racism, Adoption, and Fostering   Chapter 5:  The Practices of Transnational Adoption   Bibliography     II. Detailed Table of Contents   *Each chapter includes a Conclusion   Introduction   Chapter 1.  Adoption Across Cultures Ethnographic Cases         The Preference for Fostering in West Africa         The Commonality of Child Circulation in the Andes         The Stigma of Adoption in the Middle East Exploring the Significance of Cases         Debunking the Opposition Between “Natural” and “Adoptive” Parents         Who is Responsible for Raising Children?         History Comes Up Behind Us: Fostering and Adoption as Shaped by Context   Chapter 2.  Adoption in the United States:  Historical Perspectives Children’s Role in Society What Makes a Family? Contradictions and Controversies in American Adoption The Growing Demand for “Adoptable” Babies and the Increased Regulation of Adoption: Who Makes the “Best” Mothers? Adoption Secrecy in the Formation of “As If” Families Making Families through Adoption in the Post-War Period Adoption in the United States Today Open Adoption   Chapter 3.  Adoption: Private Decisions, Public Influences Who Adopts? Who is Adopted?         The Children: Characteristics of Adopted Children         The Parents: Marital Status and Sexual Orientation What Makes a Proper Family? Interpreting Social Norms The Role of the State Comparative Perspectives on Government’s Role in Adoption         Adoption in China         Adoption in Norway   Chapter 4.  Race. Racism, Adoption, and Fostering Race–A Social Construct, A Forceful Reality Race in U.S. Adoption History Transracial Adoption Fostering and Adoption in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century American Indians, Adoption, and Community Control   Chapter 5.  The Practices of Transnational Adoption The Global Transfer of Children Rules Governing Intercountry Adoptions The Receiving Countries         Early International Adoption as Humanitarian Aid         The United States         Adoption in Norway Sending Countries         Korea         Romania         Guatemala         China and Its Abandoned Girls After Adoption: The Making of Transnational Families   Bibliography
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Presents the most current research on families and adoption. Addresses the fundamental question "How does a child born into one family come to be raised by another family?"  Looks at two broad aspects of adoption:  the ways in which adoption reflects attitudes about families and family making on the one hand and, on the other, the ways in which adoption rests on unequal relations of power.   Chapter 1 examines adoption and fostering practices in several societies in order to show how these practices illuminate the ways families are naturalized, reflect broader social and behavioral norms, and are shaped by local and global relations of power.  Chapter 2 traces the history of adoption in the United States, noting how adoption practices have changed over the last two hundred years in ways that have sometimes reflected ongoing debates about families and sometimes pushed debates into new areas.  Chapter 3 looks at contemporary patterns of adoption in the United States.  Considering the general patterns of adoption brings to light the ways that adoption is a process engaged in by individuals but also strongly influenced by social norms and state policies.  Chapter 4 focuses on the ways in which racial discourses shape adoption and fostering in the United States. Chapter 5 explores transnational adoption and the ways that patterns of adoption across state borders have mirrored the more general difficulties faced by poorer and less politically stable countries.    Provocative questions at the end of each chapter encourage students to think critically. Families and Adoption is part of "Families in the 21st Century", a Pearson series of short texts that focus on critical issues facing families today.
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ISBN
9780205610693
Publisert
2024-03-06
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Vendor
Pearson
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176

Biographical note

Krista E. Van Vleet is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Her scholarly interests in adoption and fostering have developed from long-term ethnographic research on the social and linguistic production of relatedness in the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes. In Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power (2008), and in several articles published in journals such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Van Vleet explores the hierarchies and intimacies of everyday social life. Her current research focuses on transnational discourses of gender, religion, and family in Cusco, Peru. She teaches courses on Gender and Family in Latin America, Global Sexualities, Language and Identity, Religion in the Andes, and Anthropological Research. She received her PhD in Anthropology from The University of Michigan in 1999.