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Little Strangers
When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929 -- the first year that every state had an adoption law -- the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issues, including immigration and poverty, heredity and environment, individuality and citizenship, gender, and the family. She examines orphan fiction for children, magazine stories and articles, legal writings, social work conference proceedings, and discussions of heredity and child psychology. Nelson's ambitious scope provides for an analysis of the extent to which specialist and mainstream adoption discourse overlapped, as well as the ways in which adoption and foster care had captivated the public imagination.
Nancy Drew and Company
Nine critical essays contribute to the accelerating academic investigation into girls' fiction as mechanics of gender formation in the 20th century. Among the series they discuss are Ann of Green Gables, Isabel Carleton, Linda Lane, Betsy-Tacy, and several focusing on automobiles, as well as Nancy herself. They also consider Girl Scouts and related organizations and books furthering the effort of World War II. No personal recollections are included. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Turtle
Twenty years ago Lane White was forced to commit an unspeakable act to survive. Now he is returning to confront the demons that rage in him. Unsure if he will survive and unable to turn away.
Mutual Dreaming
Dreams can leave us breathless with excitement or scare us senseless but even more thrilling is the experience of mutual dreaming. Incredible, but very real, the phenomenen of sharing the same dream with one or more people, sometimes simultaneously, is much more common than we might think, and also extremely revealing about the way our subconscious works and sends us its messages. Linda Lane Magallon teaches us how to recognise and understand the many different forms mutual dreaming can take, from erotic dreams to terrifying nightmares, and shows us how we can decode and gain insight from them. We can even learn how to induce having the same dream with another person, or more than one person. MUTUAL DREAMING exposes the unlimited potential shared dreaming holds for each of us.
The Anatomy of Abuse
Having to endure any kind of physical, emotional, or mental abuse at any age is tortuous and can be devastating. In this novel, read, share and try to understand the experience of the abused, as well as the abuser. If your heart holds empathy, sympathy, pathos for the victimized, or if you think you may be a culprit, this novel will definitely open your eyes!
