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Ellen Herman

Kinship by Design

A History of Adoption in the Modern United States

368 pages, 15 halftones  6 x 9  © 2008

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9780226327594   Published December 2008

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226327600   Published December 2008

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Family Making in an Age of Uncertainty

Part 1: Regulation and Interpretation, 1900–1945
1. The Perils of Money and Sentiment (and Custom, Accident, Impulse, Intuition, Common Sense, Faith, and Bad Blood)
2. Making Adoption Governable
3. Rules for Realness

Part 2: Standardization and Naturalization, 1930–1960
4. Matching and the Mirror of Nature
5. The Measure of Other People’s Children

Part 3: Difference and Damage, 1945–1975
6. Adoption Revolutions
7. The Difference Difference Makes
8. Damaged Children, Therapeutic Lives
 
Epilogue: Reckoning with Risk
Notes
Index
Subjects


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