Adoption, family and the paradox of origins [electronic resource] : a Foucauldian history / Sally Sales.
Sales, Sally, 1957-
2012
HV875 .S24 2012eb
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Title Adoption, family and the paradox of origins [electronic resource] : a Foucauldian history / Sally Sales.
Author Sales, Sally, 1957-
ISBN 9780230363281 (electronic book)
9780230276253
Publication Details Houndmills [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 216 p.)
Call Number HV875 .S24 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.734
Summary 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,⁸for the first time, Foucauldian methodology to analyze and understand adoption social work, making it⁸essential reading for a wide audience in the social sciences.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
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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 modern 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.

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