{"product_id":"blue-ribbon-babies-and-labors-of-love-race-class-and-gender-in-u-s-adoption-practice-paperback","title":"Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristine Ward Gailey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost Americans assume that shared genes or blood relationships provide the strongest basis for family. What can adoption tell us about this widespread belief and American kinship in general? \u003ci\u003eBlue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love\u003c\/i\u003e examines the ways class, gender, and race shape public and private adoption in the United States. Christine Ward Gailey analyzes the controversies surrounding international, public, and transracial adoption, and how the political and economic dynamics that shape adoption policies and practices affect the lives of people in the adoption nexus: adopters, adoptees, birth parents, and agents within and across borders. Interviews with white and African-American adopters, adoption social workers, and adoption lawyers, combined with her long-term participant-observation in adoptive communities, inform her analysis of how adopters' beliefs parallel or diverge from the dominant assumptions about kinship and family. Gailey demonstrates that the ways adoptive parents speak about their children vary across hierarchies of race, class, and gender. She shows that adopters' notions about their children's backgrounds and early experiences, as well as their own \"family values,\" influence child rearing practices. Her extensive interviews with 131 adopters reveal profoundly different practices of kinship in the United States today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving beyond the ideology of \"blood is thicker than water,\" Gailey presents a new way of viewing kinship and family formation, suitable to times of rapid social and cultural change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristine Ward Gailey is Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eKinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 199\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42111913164880,"sku":"9780292725706","price":42.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/QlVXSWpWUmdzZ1o5Z09EUG83MVhRdz09.webp?v=1772607065","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/blue-ribbon-babies-and-labors-of-love-race-class-and-gender-in-u-s-adoption-practice-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}