Adoption has always been a woman's issue. With eloquence and conviction, more than 30 diverse birth mothers, adoptive mothers and adoptees tell their adoption stories and explore what is a deeply emotional, sometimes controversial, and always compelling experience that affects millions of families and individuals.
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The first feminist book on adoption & a literary anthology
The Adoption Reader contains essays and stories by birth mothers, adoptive mothers and adopted daughters. These diverse stories of women's lives illustrate how women have moved through their adoption journeys in order to name and claim their whole lives. The thirty essays written by well known authors such as Louise Erdrich, Nancy Mairs, Shay Youngblood, and Florence Fisher, along with many less established writers, cover topics such as: open adoption; international adoption; lesbian families; single parent adoptions; bi-racial adoptees; reunions; open records;special needs children and foster parenting. This is a wonderful "gift book" for birth mothers, adoptees, adoptive families and for clinicians and administrators in the adoption field. The book has been favorably reviewed by major adoption organizations (AAC, Adoption, PACT, Roots & Wings, Chain of Life, etc) and by academic/women's studies journals alike. [Library Journal, The Women's Review of Books, etc]. The Women's Press just issued the British Editoin of the book in September, 1996. This has become the best-selling book at adoption conferences nation-wide and is being "adopted" by women's literature and family studies courses through-out the USA and Canada.
The Adoption Reader contains essays and stories by birth mothers, adoptive mothers and adopted daughters. These diverse stories of women's lives illustrate how women have moved through their adoption journeys in order to name and claim their whole lives. The thirty essays written by well known authors such as Louise Erdrich, Nancy Mairs, Shay Youngblood, and Florence Fisher, along with many less established writers, cover topics such as: open adoption; international adoption; lesbian families; single parent adoptions; bi-racial adoptees; reunions; open records;special needs children and foster parenting. This is a wonderful "gift book" for birth mothers, adoptees, adoptive families and for clinicians and administrators in the adoption field. The book has been favorably reviewed by major adoption organizations (AAC, Adoption, PACT, Roots & Wings, Chain of Life, etc) and by academic/women's studies journals alike. [Library Journal, The Women's Review of Books, etc]. The Women's Press just issued the British Editoin of the book in September, 1996. This has become the best-selling book at adoption conferences nation-wide and is being "adopted" by women's literature and family studies courses through-out the USA and Canada.
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Seventeen years have gone by since I first wrote for a magazine about the daughter I surrendered to adoption, and how the experience changed my life. Read the first page
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This is one of the few books written about adoption that has brought tears to my eyes with the emotional intensity shared by the writers in their stories from all perspectives of adoption. I would recommend this book to anyone touched by adoption, or who is considering entering into the world of adoption, whether through adoptive parenting, placement, counseling, or reunion.
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Carol Sternhell, journalism and Women's Studies faculty, New York University."I wish I had room to quote from each of the 31 essays (and poems) here, but I don't; read the book. The conversation is rich and plentiful, personal and political, inspirational and annoying. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to eavesdrop in-and perhaps to participate in ---such a conversation. If there's one thing we've learned from feminism, it's the importance of listening to other women's stories (especially the stories that are not quite like our own)."
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PACT PRESS: "The Adoption Reader brings together thirty-two autobiographical writings of birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and adopted daughters. Readers are taken on a journey into a world of women's deepest challenges to identity - traveling from the isolated plains of separation to the fertile grounds of connection -- offering a beneath the surface look at the discovery, excavation and assimilation of inner experiences. This is a book about women connecting with many parts of themselves through the lens of adoption. The collection presents a case for redefining what joining and separating mean and discovering new sources of adoption pride."
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