Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children : Birth, Foster, and Adoptive Mothers

本書探討了全球化的深層方面：美國白人收養亞洲兒童。是基於對收養母親和收養社會工作者的數十次採訪，韓國生育母親將孩子送去收養的近200封信和文章以及在韓國收養機構進行的實地調查的結果。還包括對美國的分析和解釋。韓國政府的社會特徵和收養政策，以及國家間關係如何影響國際收養。

本書揭示了諸如性別不平等，對婦女生殖力的社會控制，重男輕女的家庭結構以及有關影響國際收養的婦女和母親的社會觀念等因素。探索了收養、生育和寄養母親從階級、種族和國籍的不同社會地位受到性別壓迫的多種方式，並揭示了這三類婦女的孕育之間的相互依存和不平等。

This book explores a deeply personal aspect of globalization: the adoption of Asian children by white Americans. It is based on dozens of interviews with adoptive mothers and adoption social workers, nearly two hundred letters and essays written by Korean birth mothers who put their children up for adoption, and field work at an adoption agency in South Korea. It also includes analyses and explanations of U.S.

and South Korean governments' social characteristics and policies regarding adoptions and how relations between nations have affected international adoption. The book focuses on whether the commonly held notion that adoptions are to serve children's welfare and their best interests has tended to render gendered aspects of international adoptions invisible. Factors such as gender inequality, social control of women's reproductive power, patriarchic family structure, and social beliefs concerning womanhood and motherhood that affect international adoptions are revealed in this book.

The multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different social positions of class, race, and nationality are explored and the interdependencies and inequalities of the motherhoods of these three groups of women are brought to light.

Gill (Author) 

Publisher:Lexington Books 

ISBN:   978-1498509640