Weaving a Family Paperback by Barbara Katz Rothman

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (2006-05-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 288 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807028308
• Item Weight: 340.2 grams
• Dimensions: 21.59 x 13.97 x 1.91 cm

Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, and all-race, family, and adoption-within the context of the changing meanings of motherhood.

About the Author

Barbara Katz Rothman is a professor of sociology at the City University of New York. Her previous books include The Book of Life, Recreating Motherhood, The Tentative Pregnancy, and In Labor. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and the youngest of their three children.