Works in English Covering Adoption History in Canada and the United States

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Works in English Covering Adoption History in Canada and the United States By Matine Spence Introduction The following are works in English covering adoption history in Canada and the United States. These are works for the most part produced within the discipline of history from primary source material; however, I have also included a few sources by authors who work in other disciplines such as English and sociology that make original claims about adoption history. Some of the work included here focuses more broadly on child welfare or women’s history but is included because of its extended discussions of adoption. I did not include adoption memoirs and book reviews and, save for a few exceptions, have restricted this bibliography to works published from 1990 onward. The largest category of omission is work on intercountry adoption history, which can be found in other bibliographic sections herein, including East Asian adoption studies, Korean adoption studies, and China adoption studies. I also omitted works on the history of other forms of childcare and child labor such as day care, orphanages, fostering or placing-out, and indentures. I apologize to authors whose works were omitted either by decisions on scope or by being inadvertently overlooked. University of Iowa Ashby, Leroy. Endangered Children: Dependency, Neglect, and Abuse in American History. New York: Twayne, 1997. Print. ---. Saving the Waifs: Reformers and Dependent Children, 1890–1917. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1984. Print. Askeland, Lori, ed. Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care: A Historical Handbook and Guide. Westport: Greenwood, 2005. Print. ---. “Informal Adoption, Apprentices, and Indentured Children in the Colonial Era and the New Republic, 1605–1850.” Askeland, Children 3–16. Spence, “Works” 191 Austin, Linda T. “Babies for Sale: Tennessee Children’s Adoption Scandal.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 48.2 (1990): 91–102. Print. Balcom, Karen. “Constructing Families, Creating Mothers: Gender, Family, State and Nation in the History of Child Adoption.” Journal of Women’s History 18.1 (2006): 219–32. Print. ---. “The Logic of Exchange: The Child Welfare League of America, the Adoption Exchange Movement and the Indian Adoption Project, 1957–1968.” Adoption and Culture 1.1 (2007): 5–67. Print. ---. “‘Phony Mothers’ and Border-Crossing Adoptions: The Montrealto -New-York Black Market in Babies in the 1950s.” Journal of Women’s History 19.1 (2007): 107–16. Print. ---. TheTraffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling Between the United States and Canada, 1930–1972. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2011. Print. Berebitsky, Julie. “Family Ideals and the Social Construction of Modern Adoption: A Historical Perspective.” Adoptive Families in a Diverse Society. Ed. Katarina Wegar. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2006. 29–42. Print. ---. Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851–1950. Lawrence: U of Kansas P, 2000. Print. ---. “‘To Raise as Your Own’: The Growth of Legal Adoption in Washington.” Washington History 6 (1994): 5–26. Print. Briggs, Laura. “Mother, Child, Race, Nation: The Visual Iconography of Rescue and the Politics ofTransnational andTransracial Adoption.” Gender and History 15.2 (2003): 179–200. Print. ---. Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption. Durham: Duke UP, 2012. Print. Briggs, Laura, and Karen Dubinsky. “Introduction: The Politics of History and the History of Politics.” Native Adoption in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia. Spec. Issue of American Indian Quarterly 37.1/2 (2013): 129–35. Print. Carocci, Max, and Stephanie Pratt, eds. Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Print. Studies of the Americas. Carp, E. Wayne. Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58. Lawrence: U of Kansas P, 2004. Print. Adoption & Culture Vol. 4 (2014) 192 ---. “The Atheist and the Christian: Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Jean Paton, and the Stigma of the 1950s.” The Journal of the Historical Society 12.2 (2012): 205–27. Print. ---. “Does Opening Adoption Records Have an Adverse Social Impact? Some Lessons from the U.S., Great Britain, and Australia, 1953– 2007.” Adoption Quarterly 10.3–4 (2007): 29–52. Print. ---. Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998. Print. ---. “How Tight Was the Seal? A Reappraisal of Adoption Records in the United States, England, and...