Adoption, family and the paradox of origins a Foucauldian history / Sally Sales.

Author/creator Sales, Sally, 1957-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionix, 216 p. ; 23 cm.
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SeriesPalgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life
Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life. ^A788200
Contents Introducing the study -- Family as cause and cure: the emergence of adoption -- Contested involvements: adoption before the Second World War -- Differences denied: the normalisation of adoption -- Differences and identities: the making of contemporary adoption -- Contested attachments: the controversial emergence of "open adoption" -- Introducing the archive study -- Knowing or transforming the self: tracing letterbox contact -- Identity through injury: unfit mothers and direct contact -- Conclusions.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 202-210) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011049022
ISBN9780230276253 (alk. paper)
ISBN0230276253 (alk. paper)

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