Christine Ward Gailey is Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the author of Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Profiling Adoption in the United States TodayChapter 2. "Kids Need Families to Turn Out Right": Public Agency AdoptersChapter 3. Transracial Adoption in PracticeChapter 4. Making Kinship in the Wake of History: Older Child AdoptionChapter 5. The Global Search for "Blue-Ribbon Babies": International AdoptionChapter 6. Inclusive, Exclusive, and Contractual Families: What Adoption Can Tell Us about Kinship TodayNotesReferencesIndex

Christine Ward Gailey is Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the author of Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Profiling Adoption in the United States TodayChapter 2. "Kids Need Families to Turn Out Right": Public Agency AdoptersChapter 3. Transracial Adoption in PracticeChapter 4. Making Kinship in the Wake of History: Older Child AdoptionChapter 5. The Global Search for "Blue-Ribbon Babies": International AdoptionChapter 6. Inclusive, Exclusive, and Contractual Families: What Adoption Can Tell Us about Kinship TodayNotesReferencesIndex

Christine Ward Gailey is Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the author of Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Profiling Adoption in the United States TodayChapter 2. "Kids Need Families to Turn Out Right": Public Agency AdoptersChapter 3. Transracial Adoption in PracticeChapter 4. Making Kinship in the Wake of History: Older Child AdoptionChapter 5. The Global Search for "Blue-Ribbon Babies": International AdoptionChapter 6. Inclusive, Exclusive, and Contractual Families: What Adoption Can Tell Us about Kinship TodayNotesReferencesIndex