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Edited by Lisa Cassidy and Mianna Lotz, Philosophies of Adoption: Perspectives and Reflections explores contemporary philosophical analysis of adoption, providing insight into new and underexplored topics in the field. Three scholarly developments are central to the emerging philosophical discourse on adoption explored in this volume: a problematizing of the adoption triangle or "triad", a critique of the so-called "bio-normative family", and an attention to specific issues in transracial and First Nations adoption. The book's contributors expand on all three of these areas by addressing a range of questionsâHow does being adopted shape self-knowledge and identity? What challenges arise at the intersection of race and adoption? What can be learned about epistemic justice, identity, and belonging from transracial adoption? What are the narratives told about adoption?âto show how current conditions and lived adoptee experiences give new shape, meaning, and importance to philosophical thinking about adoption. Showcasing a diversity of styles and standpoints, and organized into three core themesâsituating adoption, knowing adoption, and telling adoptionâthis book grapples with the adoption experience, historical and recent developments in adoption practice, and emerging directions in philosophical scholarship.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Situating Adoption: Histories, Contexts, Boundaries
- Chapter 1: Adoption, Race, and Rescue: Transracial Adoption and Lesbian/Gay Ascendency to Whiteness
- Chapter 2: Racist Structures of American Indian Interracial Adoption
- Chapter 3: âUnsettlingâ Adoption: Rethinking Parenting in the Shadow of Colonialism
- Part II: Knowing Adoption: Epistemic Justice and Injustice
- Chapter 4: Adopting Silence: On Adoptee Disenfranchisement and Epistemic Injustice
- Chapter 5: Adoption Stories and Epistemic Neglect
- Chapter 6: Racial Belonging and Identity: Impacts on Transracial Adopteesâ Epistemic and Moral Agency
- Part III: Telling Adoption: The Stories We Tell
- Chapter 7: Heavy with Child: Infertile Attachments, Existential Racism, and Geneticism
- Chapter 8: Adoption in New Media: Changing the Narrative?
- Chapter 9: Excerpts from The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
- Chapter 10: âItâs So Very Layeredâ: In Conversation with Shannon Gibney
- About the Editors and Contributors