0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Adoption & fostering

Buy Now

Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea - Virtual Mothering (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016) Loot Price: R984
Discovery Miles 9 840
Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea - Virtual Mothering (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): Hosu Kim

Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea - Virtual Mothering (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)

Hosu Kim

Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R984 Discovery Miles 9 840 | Repayment Terms: R92 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

This book illuminates the hidden history of South Korean birth mothers involved in the 60-year-long practice of transnational adoption. The author presents a performance-based ethnography of maternity homes, a television search show, an internet forum, and an oral history collection to develop the concept of virtual mothering, a theoretical framework in which the birth mothers' experiences of separating from, and then reconnecting with, the child, as well as their painful,ambivalent narratives of adoption losses, are rendered, felt and registered. In this, the author refuses a universal notion of motherhood. Her critique of transnational adoption and its relentless effects on birth mothers' lives points to the everyday, normalized, gendered violence against working-class, poor, single mothers in South Korea's modern nation-state development and illuminates the biopolitical functions of transnational adoption in managing an "excess" population. Simultaneously, her creative analysis reveals a counter-public, and counter-history, proposing the collective grievances of birth mothers.

General

Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
Release date: December 2018
First published: 2017
Authors: Hosu Kim
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 245
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-71151-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Adoption & fostering
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Promotions
LSN: 1-349-71151-9
Barcode: 9781349711512

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

The fostering of children - A personal…
Douglas Binstead Paperback R243 Discovery Miles 2 430
AdoptyMum - A Survival Guide To Life…
Elena Holmes Paperback R271 Discovery Miles 2 710
Four Waifs on our Doorstep
Trisha Merry Paperback R301 Discovery Miles 3 010
Bad Blood - A Life Without Consequence
David Brent Roundsley Hardcover R772 Discovery Miles 7 720
Un-Adoptable? - Faith Beyond Foster Care
Janelle Molony Hardcover R445 Discovery Miles 4 450
What Are You? The Unfolding Story of a…
June P Murray Hardcover R641 R551 Discovery Miles 5 510
Conversations with Little Dude - A…
Deanna Roy, Little Dude Hardcover R506 Discovery Miles 5 060
Baby Bigfoot's Journey Home
Keeley Aramayo Hardcover R445 Discovery Miles 4 450
Spitting Image - A Foundling's Memoir of…
Ronald G. Levi Hardcover R712 Discovery Miles 7 120
Denied! Failing Cordelia - Parental Love…
Simon Cambridge Hardcover R625 Discovery Miles 6 250
The Politics of Adoption - International…
Kerry O'Halloran Hardcover R6,723 Discovery Miles 67 230
Children and the Politics of Cultural…
Alice Hearst Hardcover R2,482 Discovery Miles 24 820

See more

Partners