Philosophies of Adoption

Perspectives and Reflections
Herausgeber: Cassidy, Lisa; Lotz, Mianna

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the philosophical analysis of adoption by providing insight into the emerging and underexplored topics within the implications and realities of adoption. Showcasing a range of styles, this book provides first-hand accounts of adult-adoptees through diverse standpoints, voices, perspectives, and relationships to adoption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781666933567
• ISBN-10: 1666933562
• Artikelnr.: 70239711

Autorenporträt

Edited by Lisa Cassidy and Mianna Lotz - Contributions by Bonnie Mann; Susan Devan Harness; Taylor-Jai Mcalister; Colin Macleod; Ryan Gustafsson; Michele Merritt; Cara O'Connor; Nabina Liebow; Frances Latchford and Shannon Gibney

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Lisa Cassidy and Mianna Lotz
Part I: Situating Adoption: Histories, Contexts, Boundaries
Chapter 1: Adoption, Race, and Rescue: Transracial Adoption and Lesbian/Gay
Ascendency to Whiteness
Bonnie Mann
Chapter 2: Racist Structures of American Indian Interracial Adoption
Susan Devan Harness
Chapter 3: 'Unsettling' Adoption: Rethinking Parenting in the Shadow of
Colonialism
Mianna Lotz, Colin Macleod, and Taylor-Jai Mcalister
Part II: Knowing Adoption: Epistemic Justice and Injustice
Chapter 4: Adopting Silence: On Adoptee Disenfranchisement and Epistemic
Injustice
Ryan Gustafsson and Michele Merritt
Chapter 5: Adoption Stories and Epistemic Neglect
Cara O'Connor
Chapter 6: Racial Belonging and Identity: Impacts on Transracial Adoptees'
Epistemic and Moral Agency
Nabina Liebow and Ryan Gustafsson
Part III: Telling Adoption: The Stories We Tell
Chapter 7: Heavy with Child: Infertile Attachments, Existential Racism, and
Geneticism
Frances Latchford
Chapter 8: Adoption in New Media: Changing the Narrative?
Lisa Cassidy
Chapter 9: Excerpt from The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A
Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
Shannon Gibney
Chapter 10: "It's So Very Layered": In Conversation with Shannon Gibney
Shannon Gibney, Lisa Cassidy, and Mianna Lotz