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Little strangers : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 /
When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929 - the first year that every state had an adoption law - the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The 1850s and their echoes : two case studies
- Money talks : the displaced child, 1860-1885
- Melodrama and the displaced child, 1886-1906
- Metaphor and the displaced child, 1886-1906
- Adoption and women, 1907-1918
- Adoption up to date : the rhetoric of mass individuality, 1919-1929.