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Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: FromßInvisible Mothers toßVirtual Mothering; 1.1 The Ungraspable Community: Birth Mothers inßSouth Korea; 1.2 The Social Death ofßBirth Mothers: AßVital Mechanism ofßTransnational Adoption Practice; 1.3 Virtual Mothering forßaßFrame ofßRecognition; 1.4 Methods forßVirtual Mothering; 1.5 My Involvement inßVirtual Mothering; 1.6 Other Sites forßMothering: Sites forßOther Mothering; Notes; Part I: Unbecoming Mothers: A History of Gendered Violence; Chapter 2: Secure theßNation, Secure theßFamily.
2.1 The Unresolved War: AßPermanent Condition forßEmergency Relief2.2 Foreign Aid-Based Welfare: TheßDevelopment ofßtheßTransnational Adoption Practice; Mixed-Race Children: Excess Children fromßUS Camptowns; Kijich'on Mothers-Give forßLife; 2.3 Family Planning Policy51-Economic Development-National Security; Illegitimate Family: Excess Children fromßSingle Mothers-Extra/Legal; Excess Children fromßtheßPoor; 2.4 Transnational Adoption: AßSecuritizing Mechanism forßNation andßFamily; Notes; Chapter 3: Maternity Homes, theßBirthplace ofßtheßVirtual Mother.
3.1 South Korea's Adoption History andßMaternity Homes (1980s toßmid-2000s)3.2 Homes forß"Unwed Mothers": AßBiopolitical Welfare Institution; 3.3 Two Mothers: 1983 andß2005; Containment: Exclusion by Inclusion; Classification ofßSingle Mothers: FromßUnfit toßSacrificing Mothers; The Circulation ofßBodies; 3.4 Life andßDeath at theßHome forßUnwed Mothers: TheßBirth ofßVirtual Mothers; Notes; Part II: Reconnection: Virtual Mothering; Chapter 4: Television Mothers: Birth Mothers Lost andßFound inßtheßSearch-and- Reunion Narrative; 4.1 Studio A: Naturalized Motherhood.
4.2 Studio B: Affective Motherhood4.3 Studio C: Motherhood inßDevelopment; 4.4 The Hidden Logic ofßtheßSearch-and- Reunion Narrative; Notes; Chapter 5: Performing Virtual Mothering andß Forging Virtual Kinship; 5.1 An "Ephemeral, but Enduring"13 Site ofßMothering; 5.2 Painful Delivery toßVirtual Baby: FromßApology toßPromise ofßHappiness; 5.3 Off andßOnßtheßStage ofßVirtual Mothering: Baby Photo Room toßVirtual Family Album37; 5.4 Virtual Kinship; 5.5 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: "I AmßaßMother, but Not aßMother": TheßParadox ofßVirtual Mothering.
6.1 Oral History: TheßSite ofßKnowledge Production andßaßSite ofßVirtual Mothering6.2 I Abandoned My baby, but IßReally Didn't; IßDidn't Abandon My Baby, but IßMight asßWell Have; Exclusion fromßtheßDecision-Making Process; Natal Alienation After Adoption; 6.3 Living Dead: Though Iß wasßAlive, It Cannot Really BeßCalled Living; 6.4 Birth Mothers' Reflections onßReunions: IßamßaßMother, but Not aßMother; 6.5 Paradoxes ofßVirtual Mothering; Notes; References; References; Index.
2.1 The Unresolved War: AßPermanent Condition forßEmergency Relief2.2 Foreign Aid-Based Welfare: TheßDevelopment ofßtheßTransnational Adoption Practice; Mixed-Race Children: Excess Children fromßUS Camptowns; Kijich'on Mothers-Give forßLife; 2.3 Family Planning Policy51-Economic Development-National Security; Illegitimate Family: Excess Children fromßSingle Mothers-Extra/Legal; Excess Children fromßtheßPoor; 2.4 Transnational Adoption: AßSecuritizing Mechanism forßNation andßFamily; Notes; Chapter 3: Maternity Homes, theßBirthplace ofßtheßVirtual Mother.
3.1 South Korea's Adoption History andßMaternity Homes (1980s toßmid-2000s)3.2 Homes forß"Unwed Mothers": AßBiopolitical Welfare Institution; 3.3 Two Mothers: 1983 andß2005; Containment: Exclusion by Inclusion; Classification ofßSingle Mothers: FromßUnfit toßSacrificing Mothers; The Circulation ofßBodies; 3.4 Life andßDeath at theßHome forßUnwed Mothers: TheßBirth ofßVirtual Mothers; Notes; Part II: Reconnection: Virtual Mothering; Chapter 4: Television Mothers: Birth Mothers Lost andßFound inßtheßSearch-and- Reunion Narrative; 4.1 Studio A: Naturalized Motherhood.
4.2 Studio B: Affective Motherhood4.3 Studio C: Motherhood inßDevelopment; 4.4 The Hidden Logic ofßtheßSearch-and- Reunion Narrative; Notes; Chapter 5: Performing Virtual Mothering andß Forging Virtual Kinship; 5.1 An "Ephemeral, but Enduring"13 Site ofßMothering; 5.2 Painful Delivery toßVirtual Baby: FromßApology toßPromise ofßHappiness; 5.3 Off andßOnßtheßStage ofßVirtual Mothering: Baby Photo Room toßVirtual Family Album37; 5.4 Virtual Kinship; 5.5 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: "I AmßaßMother, but Not aßMother": TheßParadox ofßVirtual Mothering.
6.1 Oral History: TheßSite ofßKnowledge Production andßaßSite ofßVirtual Mothering6.2 I Abandoned My baby, but IßReally Didn't; IßDidn't Abandon My Baby, but IßMight asßWell Have; Exclusion fromßtheßDecision-Making Process; Natal Alienation After Adoption; 6.3 Living Dead: Though Iß wasßAlive, It Cannot Really BeßCalled Living; 6.4 Birth Mothers' Reflections onßReunions: IßamßaßMother, but Not aßMother; 6.5 Paradoxes ofßVirtual Mothering; Notes; References; References; Index.