Jungyun Gill

Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children

Birth, Foster, and Adoptive Mothers

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores adoption of Asian children by white Americans, looking at multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different positions of class, race, and nationality and bringing to light the interdependencies and inequalities of the motherhoods of these three groups.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781498509640
• ISBN-10: 1498509649
• Artikelnr.: 54151115

Autorenporträt

Jungyun Gill is assistant professor of sociology at Stonehill College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mothers and Motherhoods in International Adoptions 1.
Historical and Social Contexts of the Institutionalization of Korea-to-US
Adoption: A Global Feminist Sociological Imagination Approach 2. Birth
Mothers in Korea 3. Foster Mothers in Korea 4. Adoptive Mothers in the
United States 5. Adoptive and Birth Mothers' Adoption Storytelling
Conclusion: Unequal Motherhoods in International Adoptions