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Adoption

A Brief Social and Cultural History

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Peter Conn
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Prologue: What Is Adoption?

    • Peter Conn
    Pages 1-4

  3. Doing What Comes Naturally

    • Peter Conn
    Pages 5-23

  4. Adoption’s Long and Often Surprising History

    • Peter Conn
    Pages 24-64

  5. Adoption in America

    • Peter Conn
    Pages 65-109

  6. Culture, Nationalism, and Intercountry Adoption

    • Peter Conn
    Pages 110-133

  7. Imagining Adoption

    • Peter Conn
    Pages 134-155

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 156-161
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About this book

Combining advocacy and memoir with social and cultural history, this book offers a comparative, cross-cultural survey of the whole history of adoption that is grounded in the author's personal experience.

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"Conn's book is an important contribution to the literature on adoption. The historical material is extremely valuable, and is covered in great detail. Furthermore, the fluency of Conn's prose make this volume a pleasure to read." Sally Haslanger, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, USA

About the author

Peter Conn is Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania

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