Adoption: From Reproductive Exploitation to Reproductive Justice

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dc.contributor.advisorLatchford, Frances
dc.contributor.authorAndrews, Valerie
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T21:22:34Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T21:22:34Z
dc.date.copyright2024-04-12
dc.date.issued2024-07-18
dc.date.updated2024-07-18T21:22:34Z
dc.degree.disciplineGender, Feminist and Women's Studies
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractAlthough adoption culture grew exponentially throughout the twentieth century in western societies, feminist analyses of the institution of adoption did not keep pace. It is only recently that feminists have attempted to locate adoption within feminism. Emerging in the early 2000s, critical adoption studies constitutes a wide variety of discourses and is interdisciplinary in scope. Notwithstanding such scholarship, the broader project of locating adoption within feminism remains on the margins of the feminist academy, and further, remains noticeably silent within reproductive justice theory. This research identifies reproductive oppression, exploitation and violence within adoption systems in domestic, transnational and colonial contexts, addresses the exclusion of the institution of adoption within the project of feminism, reproductive justice scholarship and movements, and examines the institution of adoption through a reproductive justice framework. This work interrogates the institution of adoption in ways that have been mostly absent in reproductive justice scholarship, praxis and movement and attends to the ways in which such analyses can operate to improve reproductive outcomes for marginalized women and girls in domestic, transnational, and colonial contexts.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42161
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectWomen's studies
dc.subject.keywordsAdoption
dc.subject.keywordsReproductive exploitation
dc.subject.keywordsReproductive justice
dc.subject.keywordsUnmarried mother
dc.subject.keywordsReproductive violence
dc.titleAdoption: From Reproductive Exploitation to Reproductive Justice
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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