Estye Fenton

The End of International Adoption?: An Unraveling Reproductive Market and the Politics of Healthy Babies

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Produktbeschreibung

Estye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace.

Produktdetails

• Families in Focus
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780813599687
• ISBN-10: 0813599687
• Artikelnr.: 55992263

Autorenporträt

ESTYE FENTON is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of West Alabama in Livingston.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: International Adoption in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 3: “We’re on the Market Again”
Chapter 4: Parental Anxiety and Interwoven Decision-Making Surrounding
Race, Health, and “Fitness”
Chapter 5: Murky Truths and Double-Binds
Chapter 6: The Reproductive Politics of International Adoption
Appendix: Methods and Sample Characteristics
Participant Biographies
References