Adoption matters : philosophical and feminist essays / edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haslanger, Sally Anne.

Witt, Charlotte, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adoption.

Physical Description:

xiii, 320 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.

Contents:

Introduction : kith, kin, and family / Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt

Adoption and its progeny : rethinking family law, gender, and sexual difference / Drucilla Cornell

Open adoption is not for everyone / Anita L. Allen

Methods of adoption : eliminating genetic privilege / Jacqueline Stevens

Several steps behind : gay and lesbian adoption / Sarah Tobias

A child of one's own : a moral assessment of property concepts in adoption / Janet Farrell Smith

Family resemblances : adoption, personal identity, and genetic essentialism / Charlotte Witt

Being adopted and being a philosopher : exploring identity and the "desire to know" differently / Kimberly Leighton

Real (m)othering : the metaphysics of maternity in children's literature / Shelley Park

Accidents and contingencies of love / Songsuk Hahn ; response by Harry Frankfurt

Abuse and neglect, foster drift, and the adoption alternative / Elizabeth Bartholet

Feminism, race, and adoption policy / Dorothy Roberts

Racial randomization / Hawley Fogg-Davis

You mixed? : racial identity without racial biology / Sally Haslanger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-309) and index.

ISBN:

0801441943

0801489636

OCLC:

55870948