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Strangers and kin : (Record no. 6987)

MARC details
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fixed length control field 03040cam a22003374a 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 2002017159
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field DLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20190729102635.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 020117s2002 mau b 001 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2002017159
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0674009126 (alk. paper)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency DLC
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code n-us---
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library EY8Z
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number HV875.55
Item number .M444 2002
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 362.73/4/0973
Edition number 21
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Melosh, Barbara.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Strangers and kin :
Remainder of title the American way of adoption /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Barbara Melosh.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge, Mass. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harvard University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2002.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 326 p. ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. Wanted-A Child To Raise as Our Own: Claiming Strangers as Kin -- 2. Families by Design: "Fitness" and "Fit" in the Creation of Kin -- 3. The "Best Solution": Adoption Embraced -- 4. Redrawing the Boundaries: Transracial and International Adoption -- 5. "Tell It Slant": Adoption and Disclosure -- 6. Adoption Challenged: Beyond the Best Solution.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Publisher description: Strangers and Kin is the history of adoption, a quintessentially American institution in its buoyant optimism, generous spirit, and confidence in social engineering. An adoptive mother herself, Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. It says much about the American experience of family across the twentieth century and our shifting notions of kinship and assimilation. Above all, it speaks of real people striving to make families out of strangers. In the early twentieth century, childless adults confronted orphanages reluctant to entrust their wards to the kindness of strangers. By the 1930s, however, the recently formed profession of social work claimed a new expertise--the science and art of child placement--and adoption became codified in law. It flourished in the United States, reflecting our ethnic diversity, pluralist ideals, and pragmatic approach to family. Then, in the 1960s, as the sexual revolution reshaped marriage, motherhood, and women's work, adoption became a less attractive option and the number of adoptive families precipitously declined. Taking this history into the early twenty-first century, Melosh offers unflinching insight to the contemporary debates that swirl around adoption: the challenges to adoption secrecy; the ethics and geopolitics of international adoption; and the conflicts over transracial adoption. This gripping history is told through poignant stories of individuals, garnered from case records long inaccessible to others, and captures the profound losses and joys that make adoption a lifelong process. Barbara Melosh is Professor of English and History at George Mason University.
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Adoption
Geographic subdivision United States.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Adoption
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN)
Series part designator, SPT (RLIN) u163084
949 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
h EY8Z
i 33039000693928
903 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT C, LDC (RLIN)
a 6987
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    Library of Congress Classification     Stacks 06/19/2018   HV875.55 .M444 2002 33039000693928 07/10/2023 1 Book

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