ABSTRACT:This article examines images and representations of transnational adoptees of color within contemporary Swedish minority literature and tries to understand how the adoptees are portrayed and perceived by non-adopted non-white Swedes in relation to issues of class and race, and not the least in relation to the question of who is counted as a Swede or not. The article looks at and accounts for a selection of Swedish minority literature wherein non-white transnational adoptees turn up as characters, and finds that the adoptees are sometimes seen as "race traitors" towards minority Sweden and sometimes used by non-adopted authors and their non-adopted characters to highlight issues of race, class, and Swedishness.
{"title":"When the Others Other: Images and Representations of Transnational Adoptees of Color Among Non-Adopted Swedes of Color as Reflected in Contemporary Swedish Minority Literature","authors":"Tobias Hübinette","doi":"10.1353/ado.2020.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2020.0006","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines images and representations of transnational adoptees of color within contemporary Swedish minority literature and tries to understand how the adoptees are portrayed and perceived by non-adopted non-white Swedes in relation to issues of class and race, and not the least in relation to the question of who is counted as a Swede or not. The article looks at and accounts for a selection of Swedish minority literature wherein non-white transnational adoptees turn up as characters, and finds that the adoptees are sometimes seen as \"race traitors\" towards minority Sweden and sometimes used by non-adopted authors and their non-adopted characters to highlight issues of race, class, and Swedishness.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125290259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This article examines the emerging trend of single-parent adoption in contemporary India. It describes how single men and women, through their desire for parenting-through-adoption, engage with different ways of authoring their sexualities and sexual agencies. Adoption law in India determines who is fit to be adopted, who is fit to adopt, and the right conditions for adoptions. This article simultaneously looks at how questions of sexuality are framed at the intersections of law, cultural constructions of heteronormativity and sexual health, and narratives of single-adoptive parents.
{"title":"Single Parent Adoption in Contemporary India: Addressing Questions Around Sexuality","authors":"Chandan Bose","doi":"10.1353/ado.2020.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2020.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines the emerging trend of single-parent adoption in contemporary India. It describes how single men and women, through their desire for parenting-through-adoption, engage with different ways of authoring their sexualities and sexual agencies. Adoption law in India determines who is fit to be adopted, who is fit to adopt, and the right conditions for adoptions. This article simultaneously looks at how questions of sexuality are framed at the intersections of law, cultural constructions of heteronormativity and sexual health, and narratives of single-adoptive parents.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126212717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Part memoir, part advocacy, and part original scholarship, this essay tells the story of my experience in 1995 as a legal consultant to prominent New York City law firm Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts. It is adapted from the affidavit I wrote affirming that James Buchanan Duke, the American tobacco tycoon, would have viewed Chandi Duke Heffner, an adopted adult, as a "lineal descendent," within the meaning of the Doris Duke Trust set up by Duke, and thus she was entitled to a fortune estimated at $177 million. James B. Duke (1856–1925) belonged to a class of entrepreneurs who pursued great wealth, steadfast devotion to philanthropy, and the founding of adoption agencies for infants. Beginning in the 1850s, state legislatures enacted adult adoption laws most likely to accommodate the fact that adolescents were often placed in farm families and adopted years later when they had attained adulthood. By the Progressive era, members of the wealthy business class practiced adult adoption to bequeath inheritance, show devotion to young friends, reward service, and continue their philanthropic pursuits after they had died. Adult adoption was treated in the press and among industrialists and upper-class Americans as a normal, acceptable activity, in part because American society was accustomed to adoptions at a late age and in part because adult adoptions fit this class's unique social and financial needs. Duke, like others of his class and era, would have approved of adoption in general and adult adoption in particular.
摘要:这篇文章讲述了我1995年在纽约著名律师事务所Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts担任法律顾问的经历。它改编自我写的一份宣誓书，宣誓书中说，美国烟草大亨詹姆斯·布坎南·杜克(James Buchanan Duke)将被收养的成年人钱迪·杜克·赫夫纳(Chandi Duke Heffner)视为杜克设立的多丽丝·杜克信托基金(Doris Duke Trust)意义上的“直系后裔”，因此她有权获得一笔估计为1.77亿美元的财产。詹姆斯·b·杜克(James B. Duke, 1856-1925)属于追求巨额财富、坚定地投身慈善事业、创办婴儿收养机构的企业家阶层。从19世纪50年代开始，各州立法机构颁布了成人收养法，这很可能是为了适应青少年通常被安置在农场家庭，并在成年后被收养的事实。到了进步时代，富有的商业阶层成员通过收养成人来继承遗产，向年轻的朋友表示忠诚，奖励服务，并在他们死后继续他们的慈善事业。在新闻界、实业家和美国上层阶级中，成年人收养被视为一种正常的、可以接受的活动，部分原因是美国社会习惯于在晚年收养人，部分原因是成年人收养符合该阶层独特的社会和经济需求。杜克和他那个阶级和时代的其他人一样，一般会赞成收养，尤其是成人收养。
{"title":"Adult Adoption on Trial: In the Matter of the Trust for the Benefit of Doris Duke, et al.","authors":"E. Carp","doi":"10.1353/ado.2020.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2020.0002","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Part memoir, part advocacy, and part original scholarship, this essay tells the story of my experience in 1995 as a legal consultant to prominent New York City law firm Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts. It is adapted from the affidavit I wrote affirming that James Buchanan Duke, the American tobacco tycoon, would have viewed Chandi Duke Heffner, an adopted adult, as a \"lineal descendent,\" within the meaning of the Doris Duke Trust set up by Duke, and thus she was entitled to a fortune estimated at $177 million. James B. Duke (1856–1925) belonged to a class of entrepreneurs who pursued great wealth, steadfast devotion to philanthropy, and the founding of adoption agencies for infants. Beginning in the 1850s, state legislatures enacted adult adoption laws most likely to accommodate the fact that adolescents were often placed in farm families and adopted years later when they had attained adulthood. By the Progressive era, members of the wealthy business class practiced adult adoption to bequeath inheritance, show devotion to young friends, reward service, and continue their philanthropic pursuits after they had died. Adult adoption was treated in the press and among industrialists and upper-class Americans as a normal, acceptable activity, in part because American society was accustomed to adoptions at a late age and in part because adult adoptions fit this class's unique social and financial needs. Duke, like others of his class and era, would have approved of adoption in general and adult adoption in particular.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122441778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Simone de Beauvoir adopted Sylvie Le Bon in 1980. Beauvoir was seventy-two and Le Bon in her late thirties. By then, both were in a deeply intimate relationship of some twenty years, a relationship Beauvoir refused to call "lesbian" but described as "absolute". In spite of her life-long rejection of institutionalized marriage Beauvoir suggested that their adoption was "like marriage."This paper investigates Beauvoir's adoption of Le Bon not as a legal means to "secure a literary heir" but as a queer kind of resistance against the bio-heteronormative family. It suggests that Beauvoir confounds historical and contemporary meanings of sexuality and family because her heterodox use of adoption blurs the boundaries of both. It argues that her characterisation of adoption as a marriage made the sexual profundity of her relationship with Le Bon legible, even as the "truth" of her family romance cannot be formulated in a phrase.
{"title":"Heterodox Love and the Girl Maverick: Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvie le Bon, and Their Confounding Family Romance","authors":"Frances J. Latchford","doi":"10.1353/ado.2020.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2020.0009","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Simone de Beauvoir adopted Sylvie Le Bon in 1980. Beauvoir was seventy-two and Le Bon in her late thirties. By then, both were in a deeply intimate relationship of some twenty years, a relationship Beauvoir refused to call \"lesbian\" but described as \"absolute\". In spite of her life-long rejection of institutionalized marriage Beauvoir suggested that their adoption was \"like marriage.\"This paper investigates Beauvoir's adoption of Le Bon not as a legal means to \"secure a literary heir\" but as a queer kind of resistance against the bio-heteronormative family. It suggests that Beauvoir confounds historical and contemporary meanings of sexuality and family because her heterodox use of adoption blurs the boundaries of both. It argues that her characterisation of adoption as a marriage made the sexual profundity of her relationship with Le Bon legible, even as the \"truth\" of her family romance cannot be formulated in a phrase.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116579075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Hepburn, Daniella Bendo, D. Spencer, Raven Sinclair, Jacob Bennett
ABSTRACT:We analyzed 4300 advertisements of children featured in the Today's Child column, a daily written by Helen Allen in The Toronto Telegram and The Toronto Star 1964–1982, to illustrate the movement of "hard to adopt" children through the network of adoption. Children featured in the column were characterized by adoptable or unadoptable traits and made into objects. Through an actor network theory framework, we understand how the hierarchy of specific characterizations of "hard to adopt" reached the Canadian public.
{"title":"\"Their reward will be a lovely daughter\": The Mobilization of \"Hard to Adopt\" and the Portrayal of Adoption as a Gift","authors":"T. Hepburn, Daniella Bendo, D. Spencer, Raven Sinclair, Jacob Bennett","doi":"10.1353/ado.2020.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2020.0005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:We analyzed 4300 advertisements of children featured in the Today's Child column, a daily written by Helen Allen in The Toronto Telegram and The Toronto Star 1964–1982, to illustrate the movement of \"hard to adopt\" children through the network of adoption. Children featured in the column were characterized by adoptable or unadoptable traits and made into objects. Through an actor network theory framework, we understand how the hierarchy of specific characterizations of \"hard to adopt\" reached the Canadian public.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"697 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126523948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Loss is more than sadness\": Reading Dissent in Transracial Adoption Melodrama in \"The Language of Blood\" and \"First Person Plural\"","authors":"Kim Park Nelson","doi":"10.1353/ado.2007.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2007.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127079239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Judging Men: Assessments of Fathers in Canadian Adoption Circles","authors":"V. Strong-Boag","doi":"10.1353/ado.2007.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2007.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"425 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121826292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Disembedded and free-floating bodies out-of-place and out-of-control : Examining the borderline existence of adopted Koreans
脱离嵌入和自由漂浮的身体，不在地方和失控:审视被收养的韩国人的边缘存在
{"title":"Disembedded and Free-Floating Bodies Out of Place and Out of Control: Examining the Borderline Existence of Adopted Koreans","authors":"Tobias Hübinette","doi":"10.1353/ado.2007.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2007.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Disembedded and free-floating bodies out-of-place and out-of-control : Examining the borderline existence of adopted Koreans","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123422552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Logic of Exchange: The Child Welfare League of America, The Adoption Resource Exchange Movement and the Indian Adoption Project, 1958–1967","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/ado.2007.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2007.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122974679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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