Cultures of Transnational Adoption (original) (raw)

2006

Abstract

CULTURES OF TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION, EDITED BY TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN, DURHAM, NC: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005 Critical studies of adoption, long the province of psychology and social work, now appear in many disciplines as well as in the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies, women's studies, and childhood studies. Reflecting this development is Toby Alice Volkman's well-designed volume of essays. Cultures of Transnational Adoption does the important work of interrogating the permeable boundaries between personal and national identity as defined by kinship. Addressing issues within the context of ever-expanding, globalized cultural economies, the volume acknowledges and responds to a virtual explosion of discourses related to adoption: a surge in the numbers of transnational adoptions over the past half century; a proliferation of popular literature and film about adoption; and grassroots as well as officially sanctioned advocacy efforts aimed primarily at adoptees and th...

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