Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea

1. Introduction: From Invisible Mothers to Virtual Mothering
Hosu Kim

Part I. Unbecoming Mothers: A History of Gendered Violence

2. Secure the Nation, Secure the Family
Hosu Kim

3. Maternity Homes, the Birthplace of the Virtual Mother
Hosu Kim

Part II. Reconnection: Virtual Mothering

4. Television Mothers: Birth Mothers Lost and Found in the Search-and-Reunion Narrative
Hosu Kim

5. Performing Virtual Mothering and Forging Virtual Kinship
Hosu Kim

6. “I Am a Mother, but Not a Mother”: The Paradox of Virtual Mothering
Hosu Kim

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Ethnography