Natural bonds, legal boundaries: Modes of persuasion in adoption rhetoric

Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture

Volumn 9780472024940, Issue , 2011, Pages 207-229

  Modell, Judith ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (20)

1. The distinction comes from F. G. Bailey's analysis of persuasive rhetoric in The Tactical Uses of Passion: An Essay on Power, Reason, and Reality (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983).
2. Wayne Carp, Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption (Cambridge; Harvard University Press, 1998), 142.
3. Judith S. Modell, Kinship with Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
4. Bailey, Tactical Uses of Passion, 29.
5. Clifford Geertz, Local Knowledge (New York: Basic Books, 1983), 173.
6. Bailey, Tactical Uses of Passion, 22-23.
7. Kenneth Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969), 50.
8. Modell, Kinship with Strangers, 150.
9. Joseph Gusfield, Contested Meanings: The Social Construction of Alcohol Problems (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), on the creation of "social problems" that receive attention from legislators, policy makers, and the media.
10. Carp, Family Matters, chap. 5, for a discussion of the political events influencing the adoption reform movement.
11. Bailey, Tactical Uses of Passion, 134.
12. Burke, Rhetoric of Motives, 54.
13. Bailey, Tactical Uses of Passion, 132.
14. Modell, Kinship with Strangers, 157.
15. Most recently and thoroughly by Carp, in Family Matters
16. Florence Fisher, The Search for Anna Fisher (New York: Arthur Fields, 1973), 112.
17. Modell, "'Where Do We Go Next?' Long-Term Reunion Relationships between Adoptees and Birth Parents", Marriage and Family Review, 25, no. 1/2(winter 1997):43-66.
18. Adam Pertman, Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America (New York: Basic, 2000), 32, 82.
19. Bailey, Tactical Uses of Passion, 23.
20. Modell, "Open Adoption: Extending Families, Exchanging Information", in New Directions in Kinship, ed. Linda Stone (London: Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1998).