Babies without borders: Rescue, kidnap, and the symbolic child

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Dubinsky, Karen ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 43249133029     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2007.0009     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Jane Mayer, "The Experiment," The New Yorker, 11 and 18 July 2005, 65.
2. Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 21.
3. On the symbolic politics of childhood, see Daniel Cook, ed., Symbolic Children (New York: Peter Lang, 2002).
4. Barbara Yngvesson, "'Un Nino de Cualquier Color': Race and Nation in Intercountry Adoption," in Globalizing Institutions: Case Studies in Regulation and Innovation, ed. Jane Jenson and Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Aldershot U.K.: Ashgate, 2000), 169-204, quotation on 182.
5. For elaboration on this, see Karen Dubinsky, "We Adopted a Negro: Interracial Adoption and the Hybrid Baby in 1960s Canada," in Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, Dissent, 1945-75, ed. Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, forthcoming 2007).
6. Pia Haudrup Christiansen, "Childhood and the Culture Constitution of Vulnerable Bodies," in The Body, Childhood, and Society, ed. Alan Prout (London: MacMillan, 2000), 41.
7. Hugh Cunningham, The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood Since the Seventeenth Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), 3.
8. See also Xiaobei Chen, Tending the Gardens of Citizenship: Child Saving in Toronto, 1880s-1920s (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).
9. Viviana Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (New York: Basic Books, 1985), 11.
10. Dorninique Marshall, "The Construction of Children as an Object of International Relations: The Declaration of Children's Rights and the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations, 1900-1924," International Journal of Children's Rights 7, no. 2 (1999): 103-47, quotation on 137.
11. See, for example, Ariette Farge and Jacques Revel, The Vanishing Children of Paris-Rumor and Politics Before the French Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991).
12. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
13. Mary Weismantel, Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001 ), 210, xxvi.
14. See also Luise White, Speaking With Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000);
15. Lauren Derby, "Gringo Chicken with Worms: Food and Nationalism in the Dominican Republic," in Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of US-Latin American Relations, ed. Gilbert Joseph, Catherine LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore (Durharn, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), 451-93;
16. and Lauren Derby, "Imperial Secrets: Vampires and Nationhood in Puerto Rico" (paper presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Claremont, CA, June 2005).
17. Christina Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-61 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).
18. Rebecca de Schweinitz, "The 'Shame of America': African-American Civil Rights and the Politics of Childhood," in The Politics of Childhood: International Perspectives, Contemporary Developments, ed. Tim Goddard et al. (Hampshire: MacMillan, 2005), 50-65.
19. Yngvesson, "'Un Nino de Cualquier Color,'" 170.
20. Moira Maguire, "Foreign Adoptions and the Evolution of Irish Adoption Policy, 1945-1952," Journal of Social History 36, no. 2 (2002): 2-32, quotation on 5.
21. Karen Balcom, "The Traffic in Babies: Cross Border Adoption, Baby-Selling and the Development of Child Welfare Systems in the United States and Canada, 1930-1960" (PhD diss., Rutgers University, 2002).
22. Eleana Kim, "Wedding Citizenship and Culture: Korean Adoptees and the Global Family," Social Text 21, no. 1 (2003): 57-81.
23. Toby Alice Volkman, "Embodying Chinese Culture," in Cultures of Transnational Adoption, ed. Toby Alice Volkman (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), 81-116, quotation on 96.
24. Veronica Strong-Boag, "Today's Child: Preparing for the 'Just Society' One Family at a Time in 1960s Canada," Canadian Historical Review (forthcoming);
25. Laura Briggs, "Mother, Child, Race, Nation: The Visual Iconography of Rescue and the Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption," Gender and History 15, no. 2 (2003): 179-200;
26. Lisa Cartwright, "Photographs of 'Waiting Children' on the Transnational Adoption Market," Social Text 21, no. 1 (2003): 83-109.
27. and Ann Anagnost, "Maternal Labor in a Transnational Circuit," in Consuming Motherhood, ed. Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004).
28. The history of adoption has been told primarily, at this point, from the U.S. perspective. See, for example, Wayne Carp, Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988);
29. Julia Beribitsky, Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-2950 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000);
30. and Barbara Melosh, Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).
31. Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
32. See, for example, Suzanne Fournier, and Ernie Crey, Stolen from Our Embrace: The Abduction of First Nations Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1997).
33. Rickie Solinger, Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion and Welfare in the United States (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001).
34. Signe Howell, "Self Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption," in Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, ed. Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), 213.
35. David Eng, "Transracial Adoption and Queer Diaspora," Social Text 21, no. 1 (2003): 1-37.