ABSTRACT:In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, the Court relied on originalism to excise women from the Constitution. Originalism is purposefully backward-looking. With cherry-picked history, the Court created a future that looks to the past: a past where unwed pregnancy is shameful and can be redeemed only by secret adoption. Yet the case has revealed originalism as a flawed method, harmed the legitimacy of the Court, and energized those supporting abortion rights.
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In this personal essay, the author describes a story of the loss, lifelong grief, and repercussions experienced by all members of the adoption triad. This story counters the frequently told fairytale narrative that posits the promises of adoption over abortion as a solution to “unwanted” pregnancies.
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This article compares one fictional birth mother’s experience (in Son by Lois Lowry, 2012) to actual testimonies of birth mothers in real life. Understanding this trauma should give pause to anyone suggesting that adoption is a painless and desirable alternative to abortion.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/ado.2023.a907127
Randy Milden
abstract: This first-person account tells the story of one woman's adoptive family history in the context of 1950s US adoption policies and her search for and discovery of her birthmother in the 1970s. The essay refracts the author's journey through the lenses of feminist psychology, Jewish identity, and culture. It raises questions about identity, secrets and their discovery, and belonging, and asks how children construct a sense of self from the materials within their families and communities and the stories they've been told.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/ado.2023.a907131
Reviewed by: Malignant dir. by James Wan, and: After Yang dir. by Kogonada Ayla McCullough (bio) Rev. of Malignant, directed by JAMES WAN, featuring Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, and George Young, New Line Cinema, 2021 After Yang, directed by Kogonada, written by Alexander Weinstein, featuring Colin Ferrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, A24, 2022. Following the US Supreme Court's June 2022 decision to repeal Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the African American Policy Forum issued a statement decrying the ongoing corrosion of American civil and reproductive liberties by the Right, focalizing the disproportionate and devastating consequences for marginalized individuals and communities across the nation. As black, women of color, and decolonial feminisms have long avowed, reproductive justice concerns are inextricable from slavery, eugenics, and forced sterilization, all of which have particularly tyrannized the reproductive capacities of non-white bodies. In a sociopolitical milieu where the slogan "my body, my choice" will acquire increasing notoriety under an antidemocratic leadership, this sentiment likewise reveals the possessive individualism denied to enslaved or colonized populations. In fact, Andrea Smith argues that moving beyond the pro-life versus pro-choice dichotomy is crucial for reproductive justice movements since "pro-life pits fetal rights against women's rights whereas pro-choice argues that women should have freedom to make choices rather than possess inherent rights to their bodies" (166). According to Smith, reproductive issues must be extrapolated to social justice efforts more broadly, including the dissolution of capitalism, which neither pro-life nor pro-choice positions account for thereby maintaining the gendered and racial inequalities that constitute reproductive politics. While overturning Roe v. Wade has and will continue to exert unspeakable material violence, the pandemonium might be an opportunity to reconsider Smith's claim; what would it mean for poor [End Page 117] women, women of color, Indigenous women, and women with disabilities to "possess inherent rights to their bodies" instead of recentering the tacit whiteness of reproductive rights discourse (161, 166)? Given the circumstances in which all "women" will differentially lose their bodily autonomy as states assume increasing control over reproduction—further exacerbating unequal access to medical and health services for trans and non-binary identified people—James Wan's recent horror film, Malignant, resonates newly. The film follows Madison, an adult adoptee, as she uncovers the mystery behind a series of sudden hallucinations in which people are brutally slain. Terrorized by these waking nightmares, she delves into her pre-adoptive history seeking answers. With the unwavering support of her adoptive family, Madison discovers that these attacks are being carried out by Gabriel, a malignant teratoma w
评审人:恶性dir。由温子仁和:杨导演之后。《恶性》，温子仁导演，安娜贝尔·沃利斯、麦迪·哈森和乔治·杨主演，新线影院，2021年，《杨之后》，科戈纳达导演，亚历山大·温斯坦编剧，科林·法瑞尔、朱迪·特纳-史密斯和玛丽娅·艾玛·特詹德拉维贾主演，A24年，2022年。在美国最高法院于2022年6月决定废除多布斯诉杰克逊妇女健康组织案中的罗伊诉韦德案之后，非洲裔美国人政策论坛发表声明，谴责右翼正在侵蚀美国公民和生殖自由，并重点关注全国边缘化个人和社区所遭受的不成比例的破坏性后果。正如黑人、有色人种女性和非殖民化女权主义者长期以来所宣称的那样，生殖正义问题与奴隶制、优生学和强制绝育密不可分，所有这些都特别压制了非白人身体的生殖能力。在反民主的领导下，“我的身体，我的选择”的口号将变得越来越臭名昭著的社会政治环境中，这种情绪同样揭示了被奴役或殖民人口所拒绝的占有性个人主义。事实上，安德里亚·史密斯(Andrea Smith)认为，超越反堕胎与反堕胎的二分法对生殖正义运动至关重要，因为“反堕胎将胎儿权利与妇女权利对立起来，而反堕胎则认为，妇女应该有选择的自由，而不是对自己的身体拥有固有的权利”(166)。史密斯认为，生殖问题必须更广泛地外推到社会正义的努力中，包括资本主义的解体，反对堕胎和支持选择的立场都不能解释资本主义的解体，从而维持构成生殖政治的性别和种族不平等。虽然推翻罗伊诉韦德案已经并将继续施加难以形容的物质暴力，但这场混乱可能是重新考虑史密斯主张的机会;对于贫穷妇女、有色人种妇女、土著妇女和残疾妇女来说，“拥有对自己身体的固有权利”，而不是重新进入生殖权利话语的默认白人化，这意味着什么?由于国家对生育的控制越来越严格，所有“女性”都将以不同的方式失去身体自主权，这进一步加剧了变性人和非二元性别人群获得医疗和健康服务的不平等。在这种情况下，温子仁最近的恐怖电影《恶性》引起了新的共鸣。这部电影讲述了一个被收养的成年人麦迪逊的故事，她发现了一系列突然出现的幻觉背后的秘密，在这些幻觉中，人们被残忍地杀害了。被这些醒着的噩梦吓坏了，她钻研自己被收养前的历史，寻找答案。在收养她的家庭的坚定支持下，麦迪逊发现这些攻击是由加布里埃尔实施的，加布里埃尔是一个从童年起就潜伏在她体内的恶性畸胎瘤。当麦迪逊在西米恩研究医院(Simion Research Hospital)接受治疗时，加布里埃尔(Gabriel)被(大部分)切除了手术，这让他非常愤怒，他要对所有对他被排除在外负责的人进行报复，包括医生和他们的生母，他们在意外怀孕后放弃了他们。为了篡夺麦迪逊的身心，加布里埃尔的权力不断升级，直到她强烈地收回了自己的自主权，彻底压制了糟糕的“生物学”。在《恶性肿瘤》的开场，成长者以加布里埃尔(Gabriel)的身份出现，他是医院的一名病人;他被描绘成一个具有威胁性的实体，变得“更加恶毒”，到了无法控制的地步。同时，这一场景也描绘了他在发现自己的身份和出身后想要回家的愿望。影片将时间转移到现在，讲述了怀孕的麦迪逊陷入了一段虐待婚姻的故事。当她的丈夫怀疑她会再次流产时，他把她扔到墙上，加布里埃尔再次醒来，她的头裂开了。恶毒的细节麦迪逊逐渐接受了巨大的隆起，越来越多地占领了她的身心。当她哀叹自己无法生育时，她被收养的身份被披露了，她知道这与加布里埃尔有关(他消耗胎儿以获得力量)。与此同时，加布里埃尔通过追捕并杀死授权将他转移的医疗专家团队来演练自己的痛苦。我们了解到，在不危及麦迪逊的情况下，他无法完全被取出来，所以医生将他缝合在麦迪逊的头部，以抑制剩余的部分。由肉、头发、牙齿和…
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/ado.2023.a907132
Reviewed by: The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism ed. by Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson Deanna MacNeil (bio) Rev. of The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism, edited by MODHUMITA ROY and MARY THOMPSON, Series: Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture, The Ohio State University Press, 2019 270 pp. $34.95 (paper) ISBN: 9780814255582 [Disclaimer: Adoption & Culture is also published by The Ohio State University Press, and its editor, Emily Hipchen, is one of the editors of the series to which this book belongs.] How are women's lives simultaneously connected yet divided through differences based on power, privilege, and geography? At first glance, abortion, adoption, and surrogacy appear as separate issues impacting women's lives in different ways. Yet, women's lives and experiences are shaped and interconnected by various degrees of privilege and precarity, desperation and choice. The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism uncovers how profit is put before people, not only in local communities but on a global scale and in the name of family making. The lasting effects of capitalism and patriarchy, entangled with neoliberalism's ideologies and practices, sell a story of autonomous choices for women. In effect, the tangled relations and inequities that shape and constrict women's lives are more complex than they seem. This volume describes how neoliberalism's policies began taking shape during the 1970s in the United States. Government spending on education and child welfare programs decreased while corporate profits and interest increased (6). Both Democrats and Republicans dismantled the social safety nets once in place, with Bill Clinton in 1996 ending welfare for the American people (6). Debates following policy changes demonized BIPOC. Discourses on welfare demonized poor women and women of color, feeding into and maintaining the regulation of proper family forms and aligning with religious views that discriminated against gay people (6). Such powerful ideologies shifted policies and protections in the United States, benefiting the economy while forcing self-sufficiency and individual responsibility (6), the editors observe. Neoliberalism's policies affect families and households the most, with women responsible for raising children, caring for the elderly, and completing household tasks (7). The editors continue: neoliberalism requires a "double shift" for women working outside and inside the home, providing the social reproduction required to sustain their lives and families (7). Women who can afford to work outside the home while having and raising children often require help from undocumented women or immigrants without the ability to care for their own families (7). Women's intimate lives, relations and decisions are connected to the lives of other women, shaping access to abortion, ad
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/ado.2023.a907126
Seul Lee
abstract: The Korean adoptee film director Deann Borshay Liem makes visible four adult transnational Korean adoptees' voices in Geographies of Kinship (2019). Those voices grapple with a search for identity and a historical reckoning of child migration that are forged in loss. This essay offers a needed analysis of transnational Korean adoptees' performative labor that negotiates their discrete subjectivity in both their birth and adoptive countries: a care work to form relationships and create coexistence that I call convivial labor . The principal goal of this essay is to delineate in narrative terms what the care labor I designate as conviviality entails. The dialogue between conviviality and adoption calls attention to the transnational adoptee who is tasked with producing comfort and creating connection in intimate relations. In doing so, this essay claims that Geographies of Kinship becomes a source of critical analysis of transnational adoptee coexistence or conviviality as a political category.
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