Name: Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood
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Author: McKee, Kimberly D.
ISBN: 9780814258927

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

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Physical Book

Author

Kimberly D. McKee

Publisher

Ohio State University Press

Language

English

Pages

222

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.1 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9780814258927

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

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.

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