Adoption Reckonings - For Three Refrigerators and a Washing Machine

This book presents a new theater play, titled For Three Refrigerators and a Washing Machine, along with a thorough introduction that provides historical context and theoretical framing of the "historic" child adoptions from postwar Greece.

About the author

Gonda Van Steen holds the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature in the Department of Classics at King's College London, where she also directs the Centre for Hellenic Studies. She is the author of many articles and six books. The book most pertinent to this recent writing and performance project is Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece (2019). Van Steen is a co-leader of the campaign called Nostos for Greek Adoptees.

Product details

• Authors: Gonda Van Steen, Gonda Van Steen, Van Steen Gonda
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9781839995033
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-503-3
• No. of pages: 110
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Greece, Child & developmental psychology, Social and cultural history, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology