Adoption Fantasies
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Adoption Fantasies

The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

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eBook - ePub

Adoption Fantasies

The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

About this book

In Adoption Fantasies, Kimberly D. McKee explores the ways adopted Asian women and girls are situated at a nexus of objectificationsā€”as adoptees and as Asian American womenā€”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 mediaā€”adoptive parents and families and strangers alikeā€”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.

Information

Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780814258927
9780814215579
eBook ISBN
9780814283189
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Title Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction The Limits of Multiculturalism
  10. Chapter 1 The Fortune Cookie and the Mandarin: Adoption in Modern Family and Sex and the City
  11. Chapter 2 Just Another Asian (American) Woman in Better Luck Tomorrow and Sideways
  12. Chapter 3 The Contingencies of Belonging: Soon-Yi Previn
  13. Chapter 4 Reimagining Korean Adoption in Seoul Searching
  14. Chapter 5 Twinsters and Adoptee Negotiations of the Desire for an Adoption Fairy Tale
  15. Coda Disrupting Fantasies of Adoption
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Series Page

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