Combining advocacy and memoir with social and cultural history, this book offers a comparative, cross-cultural survey of the whole history of adoption that is grounded in the author's personal experience.

Autorentext

Peter Conn is Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania

Inhalt

1. Doing What Comes Naturally 2. Adoption's Long and Often Surprising History 3. Adoption in America 4. Culture, Nationalism, and Intercountry Adoption 5. Imagining Adoption