The Resource Adoption, identity, and kinship : the debate over sealed birth records, Katarina Wegar
Adoption, identity, and kinship : the debate over sealed birth records, Katarina Wegar
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- Summary
- Sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself are affected by persistent social beliefs that adopted children are different from and somehow inferior to children reared by their biological families. Wegar begins by considering the historical and legal development of adoption and of sealed-records policies, showing how kinship ideology, the helping professions, and gender issues intersect to frame adoption policies and the ongoing debate. Drawing on articles in social work and mental health journals, activist newsletters, and autobiographies by search activists, as well as on popular images of adoption portrayed in talk shows and other media, she analyzes the rhetoric to reveal the unconscious biases that exist. She concludes with a discussion of ways in which adoption reformers can avoid perpetuating harmful and confining images of those who participate in adoption
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 169 pages)
- Contents
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- Introduction: adoption and the difference dilemma
- Adoption, inequality, and the law: the origins of the sealed records controversy
- Adoption research: trends and perspectives
- Debating sealed records: the social construction of search narratives
- Adoption in popular culture: similar yet different
- Conclusion: adoption in context
- Isbn
- 9780300146387
- Label
- Adoption, identity, and kinship : the debate over sealed birth records
- Title
- Adoption, identity, and kinship
- Title remainder
- the debate over sealed birth records
- Statement of responsibility
- Katarina Wegar
- Subject
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- Adoptees -- United States -- Identification
- Adoption
- Adoption -- United States
- Birthparents
- Birthparents -- United States -- Identification
- Confidential communications
- Confidential communications -- United States
- Electronic books
- Adoptees -- Identification
- Field guides
- Registers of births, etc
- Registers of births, etc -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | General
- United States
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Sociologist Katarina Wegar offers a new perspective on adoption and the search debate, placing them within a social context. She argues that Americans who are embroiled in adoption controversies have failed to understand how much the debate, adoption research, and the experience of adoption itself are affected by persistent social beliefs that adopted children are different from and somehow inferior to children reared by their biological families. Wegar begins by considering the historical and legal development of adoption and of sealed-records policies, showing how kinship ideology, the helping professions, and gender issues intersect to frame adoption policies and the ongoing debate. Drawing on articles in social work and mental health journals, activist newsletters, and autobiographies by search activists, as well as on popular images of adoption portrayed in talk shows and other media, she analyzes the rhetoric to reveal the unconscious biases that exist. She concludes with a discussion of ways in which adoption reformers can avoid perpetuating harmful and confining images of those who participate in adoption
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wegar, Katarina
- Dewey number
- 362.7/34
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV875.55
- LC item number
- .W44 1997eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Adoption
- Birthparents
- Adoptees
- Confidential communications
- Registers of births, etc
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Adoptees
- Adoption
- Birthparents
- Confidential communications
- Registers of births, etc
- United States
- Label
- Adoption, identity, and kinship : the debate over sealed birth records, Katarina Wegar
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-158) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: adoption and the difference dilemma -- Adoption, inequality, and the law: the origins of the sealed records controversy -- Adoption research: trends and perspectives -- Debating sealed records: the social construction of search narratives -- Adoption in popular culture: similar yet different -- Conclusion: adoption in context
- Control code
- 47011384
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 169 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780300146387
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt4cwhn4
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)47011384
- Label
- Adoption, identity, and kinship : the debate over sealed birth records, Katarina Wegar
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-158) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: adoption and the difference dilemma -- Adoption, inequality, and the law: the origins of the sealed records controversy -- Adoption research: trends and perspectives -- Debating sealed records: the social construction of search narratives -- Adoption in popular culture: similar yet different -- Conclusion: adoption in context
- Control code
- 47011384
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 169 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780300146387
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt4cwhn4
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)47011384
Subject
- Adoptees -- United States -- Identification
- Adoption
- Adoption -- United States
- Birthparents
- Birthparents -- United States -- Identification
- Confidential communications
- Confidential communications -- United States
- Electronic books
- Adoptees -- Identification
- Field guides
- Registers of births, etc
- Registers of births, etc -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | General
- United States
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering
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