Birth mothers and transnational adoption practice in South Korea : virtual mothering / Hosu Kim.
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 c...
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Palgrave Macmillan US,
2016.
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| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan's critical studies in gender, sexuality, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : from invisible mothers to virtual mothering
- Part I : Unbecoming mothers : a history of gendered violence
- Secure the nation, secure the family
- Maternity homes, the birthplace of the virtual mother
- Par II : Reconnection : virtual mothering
- Television mothers : birth mothers lost and found in the search-and-reunion narrative
- Performing virtual mothering and forging virtual kinshyip
- "I am a mother, but not a mother" : the paradox of virtual mothering.