{"product_id":"disrupting-kinship-9780252084058","title":"Disrupting Kinship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McKee's intersectional feminist perspective on the complexity of transnational adoption is crucial for broadening the practices of kinship so that adoptive families are not predetermined as the better and only future.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eDisrupting Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e, Kimberly McKee unpacks the macro and micro dimensions of adoption's impact on the lives of Korean adoptees, and charts the development of what she calls the transnational adoption industrial complex. Her book is required reading for its critical interdisciplinary approach to understanding the history of Korean international adoption and its legacy.\"--Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Families: A History of Asian American Adoption in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e​\"\u003ci\u003eDisrupting Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely book that contextualizes the creation and history of the transnational adoption industrial complex and identifies many of adoption's effects and repercussions, systematically as well as individually. McKee skillfully connects the historical construction of adoption to contemporary issues through diverse interdisciplinary approaches.\" --\u003ci\u003eAdoption and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McKee challenges the mainstream adoption narrative, which privileges notions of love and family by focusing on the rhetoric of child-saving rescue. . . . A welcome contribution to the study of Korean transnational adoption, especially through its engagement with the concepts of family, kinship, belonging, citizenship, and agency.\" --\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDisrupting Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital contribution that makes visible the transnational adoption industrial complex as a de factor social welfare option, and a sociopolitical reality that adoptees negotiate in daily life.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of American-East Asian Relations\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400511463767,"sku":"9780252084058","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252084058.jpg?v=1730470861","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disrupting-kinship-9780252084058","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}