This book is about transnational and transracial adoption in North American culture. It asks: to what extent does the process of international adoption reflect

Rachel Rains Winslow examines how the adoption of foreign children transformed from a marginal activity in response to episodic crises in the 1940s to an enduri

Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara King

During the 1990s, the number of children adopted from poorer countries to the more affluent West grew exponentially. Close to 140,000 transnational adoptions oc

“The important . . . largely unknown story of American adoption of Korean children since the Korean War . . . with remarkably extensive research and great ver