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Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kimberly D. McKeeSeries:Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and CulturePublish date:2023-11-15Pages:222
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814258927ISBN-10:814258921UPC:9780814258927Book Category:Social Science, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Adoption & Fostering, Women's StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCXMGS0CHS
In Adoption Fantasies, Kimberly D. McKee explores the ways adopted Asian women and girls are situated at a nexus of objectifications-as adoptees and as Asian American women-and how they negotiate competing expectations based on sensationalist and fictional portrayals of adoption found in US popular culture. McKee traces the life cycle of the adopted Asian woman, from the rendering of infant adoptee bodies in the white US imaginary, to Asian American fantasies of adoption, to encounters with the hypersexualization of Asian and Asian American women and girls in US popular culture. Drawing on adoption studies, Asian American studies, critical ethnic studies, gender studies, and cultural studies, McKee analyzes the mechanisms informing adoptees' interactions with consumers of this media-adoptive parents and families and strangers alike-and how those exchanges and that media influence adoptees' negotiations with the world. From Modern Family to Sex and the City to the notoriety surrounding Soon-Yi Previn and Woody Allen, among many other instances, McKee scrutinizes the fetishization and commodification of women and girls adopted from Asia to understand their racialized experiences.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814258927ISBN-10:814258921UPC:9780814258927Book Category:Social Science, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Adoption & Fostering, Women's StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCXMGS0CHS
Kimberly D. McKee is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University. She is a US Fulbright Scholar at Sogang University in South Korea. McKee is the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States and coeditor of Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press

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