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The ambivalence of adoption : adoptive families’ stories
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Lambert, Cath (2020) The ambivalence of adoption : adoptive families’ stories. Sociology, 54 (2). pp. 363-379. doi:10.1177/0038038519880107 ISSN 0038-0385.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038519880107
Abstract
The making of family through adoption is an emotionally and politically charged legal and social process. Both its historical and contemporary manifestations are characterised by ambivalence. Contemporary domestic adoption in the UK is at a point of profound reflection, as many of its ambivalent features are articulated at the levels of national policy making as well as within the micro political sphere of family life. Drawing on an online archive of adoption stories, in particular blogs written by adoptive parents, this article attends to the affective ways in which this ambivalence manifests within adoptive families. Queer theoretical resources are used to engage with themes of haunting, absence and loss, the strange temporalities of adoptive kinship and the complex politics of undoing at the heart of adoption.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Adoption -- Great Britain, Adopted children -- Family relationships -- Great Britain, Adoption -- Great Britain -- Psychological aspects, Adoptive parents -- Great Britain, Adoption -- Social aspects --Great Britain | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sociology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0038-0385 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 54 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 363-379 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0038038519880107 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 November 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 November 2019 |
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