{"product_id":"from-orphan-to-adoptee-9780816683079","title":"From Orphan to Adoptee","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSooJin Pate explores the ways Korean children were employed by the U.S. nation-state to promote the myth of American exceptionalism, to expand U.S. empire during the Cold War, and to solidify notions of the American family. In\u003ci\u003e From Orphan to Adoptee \u003c\/i\u003ewe see how Korean adoption became the crucible in which technologies of the U.S. empire were invented and honed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Complicating existing studies on Korean adoption and Cold War militarism, \u003ci\u003eFrom Orphan to Adoptee \u003c\/i\u003eshows how practices of transnational adoption required first the production of the ‘orphan’ as an available commodity open to transfer. ‘Orphans’ need not be parentless at all. By demonstrating that ‘orphans’ were made through various forms of militarized humanitarianism in the years leading up to the Korean War, Pate offers us a counter-history that profoundly changes our understandings of the relationship between U.S. empire and adoption. An original and exciting book.\" —Mark C. Jerng, University of California, Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pate’s work is wide-ranging, highly compelling and certainly an incisive addition to American studies, transnational studies, and orphan\/adoptee studies.\"—\u003ci\u003eAsian American Literature Fans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pate enlarges the critical lens on international adoption and U.S.-South Korean relations.\"—\u003ci\u003eDiplomatic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Challenging the Official Story of Korean Adoption\u003cb\u003e1. Militarized Humanitarianism: Rethinking the Emergence of Korean Adoption\u003cb\u003e2. Gender and the Militaristic Gaze\u003cb\u003e3. Marketing the Social Orphan\u003cb\u003e4. Normalizing the Adopted Child\u003cb\u003e5. \"I Want My Head to Be Removed\": The Limits of Normativity\u003cb\u003eEpilogue: Tracing Other Genealogies of Korean Adoption\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405971398999,"sku":"9780816683079","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-orphan-to-adoptee-9780816683079","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}