Kinship with Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture

By Judith S. Modell, Judith Schachter Modell

Adoption challenges our understanding of the core symbols of kinship in American culture - birth, biology, and blood. Judith Modell examines these symbols and the way they affect people who experie...

Ruth Benedict

By Judith Modell

Ruth Benedict, patterns of a life

By Judith Schachter Modell

A town without steel

By Judith Schachter Modell

In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as...

A town without steel

By Judith Schachter Modell

In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as...

A Sealed and Secret Kinship

By Judiths Modell, Judith Schachter Modell

A Sealed Secret Kinship

By Judith Schachter Modell

Ruth Benedict

By Judith S. Modell

Town Without Steel

By Charlee Brodsky, Judith Modell

Race

By Judith Schachter, Ruth Benedict