The politics of adoption gender and the making of French citizenship
'The Politics of Adoption' argues that adoption is not a mere family question. It conveys a model of citizenship. Policies, jurisprudence, and social work define an ideal image of parenthood in the hope to better control the making of future citizens. In a context of laws and debates on bi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
2014
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| Series: | Basic bioethics
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 'The Politics of Adoption' argues that adoption is not a mere family question. It conveys a model of citizenship. Policies, jurisprudence, and social work define an ideal image of parenthood in the hope to better control the making of future citizens. In a context of laws and debates on bioethics, this model is more and more infused with representations of the fertile body. Adoptive parents are thus expected to behave as if they were biological parents |
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| Item Description: | "This work originally appeared under the title Penser l'adoption, Presses Universitaires de France, 2012." |
| ISBN: | 0262323389 9781306731034 1306731038 9780262323383 |