Kimberly McKee is an assistant professor of liberal studies at Grand Valley State University.
"McKee's intersectional feminist perspective on the complexity of
transnational adoption is crucial for broadening the practices of
kinship so that adoptive families are not predetermined as the
better and only future." --Journal of American Ethnic
History
"In Disrupting Kinship, Kimberly McKee unpacks the macro and
micro dimensions of adoption's impact on the lives of Korean
adoptees, and charts the development of what she calls the
transnational adoption industrial complex. Her book is required
reading for its critical interdisciplinary approach to
understanding the history of Korean international adoption and its
legacy."--Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Global Families: A
History of Asian American Adoption in America
"Disrupting Kinship is a timely book that contextualizes the
creation and history of the transnational adoption industrial
complex and identifies many of adoption's effects and
repercussions, systematically as well as individually. McKee
skillfully connects the historical construction of adoption to
contemporary issues through diverse interdisciplinary approaches."
--Adoption and Culture
"McKee challenges the mainstream adoption narrative, which
privileges notions of love and family by focusing on the rhetoric
of child-saving rescue. . . . A welcome contribution to the study
of Korean transnational adoption, especially through its engagement
with the concepts of family, kinship, belonging, citizenship, and
agency." --H-Net Reviews
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