Birth mothers : adoption in New Zealand and the social control of women, 1881-1985.
This thesis profiles the lives of women in New Zealand, comparing these generalised experiences to emerging adoption law from a feminist perspective. Although this thesis covers adoption's legislative history from its inception, it concentrates on the era of closed adoptions, from 1955-1985. Th...
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University of Canterbury. Department of History
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4826 |