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Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929 Hardcover – Download: Adobe Reader, May 13, 2003

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When Massachusetts passed America’s first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929—the first year that every state had an adoption law—the adoptee’s main function was seen as emotional. Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issues, including immigration and poverty, heredity and environment, individuality and citizenship, gender, and the family. She examines orphan fiction for children, magazine stories and articles, legal writings, social work conference proceedings, and discussions of heredity and child psychology. Nelson’s ambitious scope provides for an analysis of the extent to which specialist and mainstream adoption discourse overlapped, as well as the ways in which adoption and foster care had captivated the public imagination.

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224 pages
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English
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Indiana University Press
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May 13, 2003
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6.12 x 0.89 x 9.25 inches
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0253342244
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978-0253342249
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"Nelson's study of the growth of sentimental adoption... is based on thorough research in primary and secondary historical sources... and provides a deep reading of representations of adoption and foster care from 'orphan fiction' and stories in women's magazines.... This study will appeal to anyone intereted in the history of adoption, social welfare, juvenile literture, and childhood and family. Recommended." —Choice

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Winner of the Children's Literature Association 2005 Award for Best Scholarly Book.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press (May 13, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0253342244
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0253342249
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.12 x 0.89 x 9.25 inches

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steven langston

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Nelson is the typical academic without the ability to step outside the 'ivory tower' on social issues or iconic adoption history and she can't write. She has learned to 'think to order' on social issues. One of the starting points of adoption history could be: that the first child abuse case taken to court in the U.S. involved an adoptee. In New York City, in 1874 the humane society took adoptive parents to court for beating their adopted daughter and chaining her to a bed all day. Nelson doesn't mention this case. Adoption was scandal ridden for all of the twentieth century. Nelson ignores this part of adoption history and practice. This book is unformative and poorly written. Nelson is an academic 'know nothing.' She cites numerous other academic writers, companions in conformity, no doubt. This book is beyond useless.

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An interesting look at how adoption was represented in American ...

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An interesting look at how adoption was represented in American texts--children's books, magazine articles, legal writings, and more--from the mid-nineteenth century through the ends of the 1920s. This is not a history of adoption but a history of changing attitudes toward it.

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