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Sandra Patton-Imani explores salvation narratives to highlight the complex ways they function to divert attention from state regulation of families in support of a #WhiteSupremacist, patriarchal agenda for the nation. https://t.co/Otm9LGfxDY @ProjectMUSE #AdoptionStudies

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Claudia Nelson contemplates the historical contexts for the negative visions of adoptive maternity in Disney's #Tangled and #AgathaChristie's Ordeal by Innocence. #CriticalAdoptionStudies https://t.co/ReDsU28mDu @ProjectMUSE

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Susan Bordo argues that the attitude toward abortion and adoption turns pregnancy into a fetal delivery system rather than a profoundly transformative experience. https://t.co/5kMctVhy06 @ProjectMUSE #CriticalAdoptionStudies #DobbsDecision

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Margaret D. Jacobs argues the #AdoptionTriangle is an inadequate model for understanding #Indigenous adoptions, suggesting the model should resemble a star instead. https://t.co/c07OR7yNLL @ProjectMUSE #CriticalAdoptionStudies #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Grace Shu Gerloff argues that the idea that the problems with adoption rest solely on feelings or trauma obscures many of the structural problems with adoption. https://t.co/5AAOP0x1Ip @ProjectMUSE #CriticalAdoptionStudies

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Carol J. Singley envisions a more tolerant future for adoption as family norms become more flexible. https://t.co/P8Vuh5B3lN @ProjectMUSE #AdoptionStudies

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Macarena García-González observes that Jessaca B. Leinaweaver's #AdoptiveMigration explores the intersections of reproduction, national identity, and racialization in the upbringing of Peruvian children adopted in Madrid. https://t.co/E5nnuqB7r9 @ProjectMUSE #AdoptionStudies

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Ellen Peel explores adoption narratives in fiction, showing #MaryShelley's #Frankenstein as a tragic adoption story about the creature's failed search for origins. #CriticalAdoptionStudies https://t.co/tIwc2VW7L1 @ProjectMUSE

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It's here! Check out our latest issue of Adoption & Culture, focusing on #AdopteesOfColor live on @ProjectMUSE now, https://t.co/TV2xA5eLfZ, or Subscribe through the link in our bio. #CriticalAdoptionStudies #TransracialAdoptionStudies

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Sally Haslanger asks is it really true that relinquished children will find a suitable home? And why it is that women who would prefer not to parent nevertheless decide to parent their child instead? https://t.co/FwzGEWJof2 @ProjectMUSE #AdoptionStudies

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Sarah Hae-In Idzik argues that the use of adoption as an easy answer to a thorny problem has contributed to the objectification and dehumanization of adoptees for decades. https://t.co/hjLlQi5o60 @ProjectMUSE #CriticalAdoptionStudies

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Corey Abell argues that the treatment of fostering and adoption in Disney’s #StarWars claims "foster kids can be heroic orphans too, but only if their ultimate goal is their eventual assimilation" https://t.co/EMfM4E3Qub @ProjectMUSE #AdoptionStudies #TheAcolyte

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Carol J. Singley argues that despite the attention to adoption in the media, courts, and schools, and regardless of the success of advocacy rights efforts, adoption remains, culturally speaking, second choice and second best. https://t.co/UsFfbEb7gh @ProjectMUSE #AdoptionStudies

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John McLeod considers the opportunities created when #AdoptionStudies is brought into dialogue with #Postcolonial inquiry, uncovering the imprint of colonialism’s complicity in adoption across a range of canonical literary texts. https://t.co/dpd5YY5pXp @ProjectMUSE

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Sarah Park Dahlen argues that the categories of "surrendered child" and "birth mother" are not clean monoliths, and there are great variations in people's circumstances and experiences. #CriticalAdoptionStudies https://t.co/A7iWCOp1WN @ProjectMUSE

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Gretchen Sisson notes that adoption is rooted in inequity that is shaped by secrecy, shame, and profit, and that the market for adoption is fed by white saviorism and conservative, acquisitive, Christian ideologies. https://t.co/9esqgyIs4h @ProjectMUSE #CriticalAdoptionStudies

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Alice Diver contends that the twin notions of unwelcomeness and unwantedness seem to be at the heart of many of the increasingly heated debates over abortion rights. https://t.co/S48yCcuO4Z @projectMUSE #CriticalAdoptionStudies

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Michele Merritt clarifies what counts as a reproduction choice, arguing that adoption is not a viable alternative to abortion, namely, because adoption is not a reproductive choice. https://t.co/mkenhFIpjf @ProjectMUSE #AdoptionStudies