Mohlo by sa vám tiež páčiť

Viac informácií o knihe Sealed and Secret Kinship

• Parametre knihy
• Anotácia kniha
• Obľúbené z iného súdka

Nákupom získate 436 bodov

Anotácia knihy

Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalize, and experience adoptive kinship constitutes the subject of this book. Adoption, the author argues, touches on major preoccupations we all have: who we are; why we are what we are; the balance of "nature" and "culture" in self-definition; the conflict between individual rights and social order. The problematic nature of adoption in western societies is effectively contrasted by the author with cultures in many other parts of the world in which children are exchanged frequently, openly, and happily. There is no stigma, often even a high value, placed on being the adopted child in a family. This comparative perspective brings into sharp relief American, and by implication other western, policies that reflect a very different notion of kinship and family. Adoption thus reveals itself as one of the keys to western ideas about human nature, the person, rights, privacy, and family relationships.

Parametre knihy

Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Celý názov: Sealed and Secret Kinship
• Podnázov: Policies and Practices in American Adoption
• Autor: Judith S. Modell
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 232
• EAN: 9781571810779
• ISBN: 1571810773
• ID: 04819091
• Nakladateľ: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Hmotnosť: 381 g
• Rozmery: 216 × 140 × 18 mm
• Dátum vydania: 13. June 2002

Obľúbené z iného súdka

---

---

---