The American International Adoptee as a Subaltern Subject
The American International Adoptee as a Subaltern Subject
Author(s): Evelyn Navarre Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Summary/Abstract: Adoption has been a flashpoint for conflicting political agendas regarding the American family since its beginning formalizations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Informal adoption has existed, perhaps, since parenting has existed; in colonial white America, for example, one finds instead of formalized, legal adoptions the “putting out system,” in which girls and boys were boarded with neighbours and kin to apprentice as workers in childcare, farming, and so on.
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2004
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 221-241
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
