Steeped in Blood : Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family [1 ed.] 9780773558007, 9780773556805

What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biolog

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Steeped in Blood : Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family [1 ed.]
9780773558007, 9780773556805

An excoriation of bio-essentialism, this book turns conventional wisdom about adoption, identity, and biological family

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For a very long period of time, Dr. David Klatzow was the only independent forensic investigator in South Africa. During

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In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by c

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The first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the t

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Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood q

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An examination—through manuscripts preserved from the seventeenth century to the present—of the historical sensibilities

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During his invasion of Creek Indian territory in 1813, future U.S. president Andrew Jackson discovered a Creek infant or

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The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War lef

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The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left

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In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if th

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