Loading...
Adoption, family and the paradox of origins : a Foucauldian history /
It is now over 20 years since 'open adoption' was first introduced, but it remains a controversial and contested part of social work practice. This innovative and far ranging book sets out to understand why the practice of keeping adopted children in touch with their kinship origins is sti...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
c2012.
|
| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
|
| Subjects: |
| LEADER | 02382cam a22003134a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 008 | 111206s2012 enk b 000 0 eng | ||
| 999 | |c 319018 |d 319018 | ||
| 010 | |a 2011049022 | ||
| 016 | 7 | |a 015903282 |2 Uk | |
| 020 | |a 9780230276253 (alk. paper) | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)ocn748328919 | ||
| 042 | |a pcc | ||
| 082 | 0 | 0 | |a 362.734 |2 23 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Sales, Sally, | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Adoption, family and the paradox of origins : |b a Foucauldian history / |c Sally Sales. |
| 260 | |a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; |a New York, NY : |b Palgrave Macmillan, |c c2012. | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 216 p. ; |c 23 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-210) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introducing the study -- Family as cause and cure: the emergence of adoption -- Contested involvements: adoption before the Second World War -- Differences denied: the normalisation of adoption -- Differences and identities: the making of contemporary adoption -- Contested attachments: the controversial emergence of "open adoption" -- Introducing the archive study -- Knowing or transforming the self: tracing letterbox contact -- Identity through injury: unfit mothers and direct contact -- Conclusions. | |
| 520 | |a It is now over 20 years since 'open adoption' was first introduced, but it remains a controversial and contested part of social work practice. This innovative and far ranging book sets out to understand why the practice of keeping adopted children in touch with their kinship origins is still so questioned in contemporary adoption work. Written by an experienced practitioner in the field, this book applies, for the first time, Foucauldian methodology to analyze and understand adoption social work, making it essential reading for a wide audience in the social sciences. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Adoption. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Open adoption. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Adoptees |x Identification. | |
| 942 | |2 ddc |c BK | ||
| 830 | 0 | |a Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life. | |
| 906 | |a 7 |b cbc |c orignew |d 1 |e ecip |f 20 |g y-gencatlg | ||
| 955 | |b xj15 2011-12-06 |i xj15 2011-12-06 |a xj15 2011-12-06 to Dewey |a xe10 2012-04-12 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. | ||
| 952 | |0 0 |1 0 |2 ddc |4 0 |6 362_734000000000000_SAL_A |7 0 |9 365321 |a WMS |b WMS |c ST1 |d 2019-02-16 |e The Book Shop |i 1638 |l 0 |o 362.734 SAL/A |p WMS1638 |r 2019-02-16 |v 6459.46 |w 2019-02-16 |y BK |k 76.969E | ||