The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader 1st Edition by Emily Hipchen ISBN 9781032067827 1032067829

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ISBN 10: 1032067829

ISBN 13: 9781032067827

Author:   Emily Hipchen

 The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader presents a central source of scholarly approaches arranged around fundamental questions about how adoption, as a complex practice of family-making, is represented in art, philosophy, the law, history, literature, political science, and other humanities. Divided into three major parts, this volume traces the history of adoption and its analogues, identifies major movements in the practice, and illuminates comprehensive disciplinary frameworks that underpin the field’s approaches. This key scholarly and pedagogical tool includes excerpts from scholars such as Judith Butler, Dorothy Roberts, Margaret Homans, Margaret D. Jacobs, Arissa Oh, Marianne Novy, and Kori Graves. It explores a variety of representations of adoption and embraces interdisciplinary discussions of reproduction as it intersects race, ethnicity, power relations, the concept of nation, history, the idea of childhood, and many other contemporary concerns. The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader provides a single-volume resource for instructors or students who want a convenient collection of foundational materials for teaching or reference, and for researchers newly discovering the field. This volume’s humanities perspective makes it the first of its kind to collect secondary materials in Critical Adoption Studies for researchers, who, in taking up cultural representations of adoption, examine cultural contexts not for their impact on the practice over time but for their richness of engagement with the human experience of belonging, kinship, and identity.

Table of contents: 

Part 1 Foundations, Histories, Frames

1 Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption

2 Natural Bonds, Legal Boundaries: Modes of Persuasion in Adoption Rhetoric

3 Addressing the Harms of Not Knowing One’s Heredity: Lessons from Genealogical Bewilderment

4 Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

5 Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America

6 Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

7 Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism

8 After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century

9 Teaching American Literature: The Centrality of Adoption

10 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature

11 Everybody Else: Adoption and the Politics of Domestic Diversity in Postwar America

Part 2 Embodiment and Adoption

12 Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood: Resisting Monomaternalism in Adoptive, Lesbian, Blended, and Polygamous Families

13 A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World

14 Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting

15 Is Kinship Always Heterosexual?

16 Reproducing the State

17 The Intimate Politics of Race and Globalization

18 Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama

19 Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship

20 Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception

21 The Power to ‘Make Live’: Biopolitics and Reproduction in Blade Runner 2049

22 The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

Part 3 Adoption Narratives

23 Adoption Stories: Autobiographical Narrative and the Politics of Identity

24 Adoption Narratives, Trauma, and Origins

25 Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption

26 A War-Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War

27 To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption

28 Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging

29 Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America

30 American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

31 Family, Ancestry and Self: What is the Moral Significance of Biological Ties?

32 Labor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies

33 Reckless Abandon: The Politics of Victimization and Agency in Birthmother Narratives

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