White, Unwed Mother: The Adoption Mandate in Postwar Canada

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dc.contributor.advisorLatchford, Frances J.
dc.creatorAndrews, Valerie
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-27T13:44:47Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T13:44:47Z
dc.date.copyright2017-03-30
dc.date.issued2017-07-27
dc.date.updated2017-07-27T13:44:47Z
dc.degree.disciplineGender, Feminist and Women's Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThe white adoption mandate was a process of interrelated institutional power systems which, together with socio-cultural norms, ideals of gender heteronormativity, and emerging sociological and psychoanalytic theories, created historically unique conditions in the post WWII decades wherein white unmarried mothers were systematically and often violently separated from their babies by means of adoption in the hundreds of thousands in Canada. These factors, together with urbanization, eugenics, the profession of social work, and the introduction of baby formula; all within the context of two World Wars, collided as a kind of perfect storm to create an unprecedented locus in history where approximately 300,000 unmarried mothers in Canada were systematically separated from their babies at birth for adoption in an attempt to rehabilitate them for normative womanhood.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33571
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectHistory
dc.subject.keywordsUnwed mother
dc.subject.keywordsUnmarried mother
dc.subject.keywordsAdoption mandate
dc.subject.keywordsBaby Scoop Era
dc.subject.keywordsFallen woman
dc.subject.keywordsMaternity home
dc.subject.keywordsHome for unwed mothers
dc.subject.keywordsMagdalenism
dc.subject.keywordsMagdalen Laundry
dc.subject.keywordsBirthmother
dc.subject.keywordsAdoption
dc.subject.keywordsIllegitimate
dc.subject.keywordsBastard
dc.subject.keywordsAsylum
dc.subject.keywordsMaternal body
dc.subject.keywordsMoral regulation
dc.subject.keywordsClean break
dc.subject.keywordsClean slate
dc.subject.keywordsAttachment theory
dc.subject.keywordsViolence against women
dc.titleWhite, Unwed Mother: The Adoption Mandate in Postwar Canada
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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