Mother, child, race, nation: The visual iconography of rescue and the politics of transnational and transracial adoption

Gender and History

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 179-200

  Briggs, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; FAMINE; FOREIGN POLICY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; ICONOGRAPHY; POVERTY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042125495     PISSN: 09535233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.00298     Document Type: Article

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