Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America

The first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the...
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Author: Sandra M. Sufian
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Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America by Sufian, Sandra M.

Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America

$396.38

Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America

$396.38
Author: Sandra M. Sufian
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the twentieth century.

Disability and child welfare, together and apart, are major concerns in American society. Today, about 125,000 children in foster care are eligible and waiting for adoption, and while many children wait more than two years to be adopted, children with disabilities wait even longer. In Familial Fitness, Sandra M. Sufian uncovers how disability operates as a fundamental category in the making of the American family, tracing major shifts in policy, practice, and attitudes about the adoptability of disabled children over the course of the twentieth century.

Chronicling the long, complex history of disability, Familial Fitness explores how notions and practices of adoption have--and haven't--accommodated disability, and how the language of risk enters into that complicated relationship. We see how the field of adoption moved from widely excluding children with disabilities in the early twentieth century to partially including them at its close. As Sufian traces this historical process, she examines the forces that shaped, and continue to shape, access to the social institution of family and invites readers to rethink the meaning of family itself.

Author: Sandra M. Sufian
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01/27/2022
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780226808536

About the Author
Sandra M. Sufian is professor of health humanities and history in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois School of Medicine and associate professor of disability studies in the UIC Department of Disability and Human Development. She is the author of several books, including Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 1920-1947, also published by the University of Chicago Press. She is cofounder of the Cystic Fibrosis Reproductive and Sexual Health Collaborative and serves on the editorial board of Disability Studies Quarterly.

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