Little strangers : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929

Little strangers : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 / Claudia Nelson.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Claudia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Adoption > United States > History.
Orphans > United States > History.
Adoption in literature.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
Adoption
Adoption in literature
Orphans
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The 1850s and their echoes : two case studies
  • Money talks : the displaced child, 1860-1885
  • Melodrama and the displaced child, 1886-1906
  • Metaphor and the displaced child, 1886-1906
  • Adoption and women, 1907-1918
  • Adoption up to date : the rhetoric of mass individuality, 1919-1929.

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