The End of International Adoption? : an Unraveling Reproductive Market and the Politics of Healthy Babies / Estye Fenton.
2019
HV875.55 .F4625 2019
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Title
The End of International Adoption? : an Unraveling Reproductive Market and the Politics of Healthy Babies / Estye Fenton.
Author
ISBN
9780813599724
0813599725
9780813599687
9780813599694
0813599687
0813599695
9780813599694
0813599725
9780813599687
9780813599694
0813599687
0813599695
9780813599694
Imprint
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (v, 171 pages)
Call Number
HV875.55 .F4625 2019
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1128796360
Summary
Since 2004, the number of international adoptions in the United States has declined by more than seventy percent. In The End of International Adoption? Estye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade during this shift. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace. Many parents, activists, and scholars have questioned whether the inequality inherent in international adoption renders the entire system suspect. In the face of such concerns, international adoption has not only become more difficult, but also more politically and ethically fraught. The mothers interviewed for this book found themselves navigating contemporary American family life in an unexpected way, caught between the double-bind of work-family life and a new paradigm of thinking about the method--international adoption--that they used to create those families.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. International Adoption in the Twenty-First Century
2. "We're on the Market Again"
3. Parental Anxiety and Interwoven Decision-Making Surrounding Race, Health, and "Fitness" 56
4. Murky Truths and Double-Binds
Conclusion
Appendix A: Methods and Sample Characteristics
Appendix B: Participant Biographies
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
Contents
Introduction
1. International Adoption in the Twenty-First Century
2. "We're on the Market Again"
3. Parental Anxiety and Interwoven Decision-Making Surrounding Race, Health, and "Fitness" 56
4. Murky Truths and Double-Binds
Conclusion
Appendix A: Methods and Sample Characteristics
Appendix B: Participant Biographies
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Families in Focus Ser.
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Print version: Fenton, Estye. End of International Adoption?. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
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