Adoption, family and the paradox of origins : a Foucauldian history /
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| Author / Creator: | Sales, Sally, 1957- |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. |
| Description: | ix, 216 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8684087 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. A Genealogy of Adoption 1926-2000
- 1. Introducing the Study
- 2. Family as Cause and Cure: The Emergence of Adoption
- 3. Contested Involvements: Adoption before the Second World War
- 4. Differences Denied: The Normalisation of Adoption
- 5. Differences and Identities: The Making of Contemporary Adoption
- 6. Contested Attachments: The Controversial Emergence of 'Open Adoption'
- Part II. The Open Archive
- 7. Introducing the Archive Study
- 8. Knowing or Transforming the Self: Tracing Letterbox Contact
- 9. Identity through Injury: Unfit Mothers and Direct Contact
- 10. Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
