Redefining "real" motherhood: Representations of adoptive mothers, 1900-1950

Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture

Volumn 9780472024940, Issue , 2011, Pages 83-95

  Berebitsky, Julie ^a  

^a University of the South   (United States)

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