{"product_id":"adoption-fantasies-the-fetishization-of-asian-adoptees-from-girlhood-to-womanhood-paperback","title":"Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKimberly D. McKee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAdoption Fantasies, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eModern Family\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eSex and the City\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKimberly D. McKee is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University. She is a US Fulbright Scholar at Sogang University in South Korea. McKee is the author of \u003ci\u003eDisrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDegrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53026871509103,"sku":"9780814258927","price":66.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4966\/4879\/files\/u_J5NHsjrE9780814258927.webp?v=1777413119","url":"https:\/\/finderbooks.com\/products\/adoption-fantasies-the-fetishization-of-asian-adoptees-from-girlhood-to-womanhood-paperback","provider":"Finder Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}