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993859
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b748229
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Nelson, Claudia.
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| Title & Author
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Little strangers : : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 /\ Claudia Nelson.
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| Publication Statement
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Bloomington :: Indiana University Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (212 pages)
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| ISBN
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0253105579
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: 0253109809
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: 1282072064
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: 6612072067
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: 9780253105578
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: 9780253109804
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: 9781282072060
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: 9786612072062
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0203109809
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0253342244
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9780253342249
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Adoption in literature.
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Adoption-- United States-- History.
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Orphans-- United States-- History.
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Adoption in literature.
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Adoption.
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FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS-- Adoption Fostering.
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Orphans.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.73/4/0973
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HV875.55.N449 2003eb
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