Adopted Women and Biological Fathers - Reimagining Stories of Origin and Trauma

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Hughes was awarded the Symonds Prize 2015 for her essay ‘There’s No Such Thing As A Whole Story: The Psychosocial Implications of Adopted Women’s Experiences of Finding Their Biological Fathers in Adulthood’, published as a lead article in the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality . She is Associate Research Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Zusammenfassung Adopted Women and Biological Fathers offers a critical and deconstructive challenge to the dominant notions of adoptive identity. The author explores adoptive women’s experiences of meeting their biological fathers and reflects on personal narratives to give an authoritative overview of both the field of adoption and the specific history of adoption reunion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1. Wounded Women: The discursive construction of adoption and maternal separation trauma 2. Trauma Culture Interlude 1 3. Adopted Women and The Missing Father: Paternal absence and the production of truth Interlude 2 4. In Their Own Words: Adopted women, otherness and the quest for truth 5. The Search for Origins: Self-discovery, fragmentation and the fantasy of return 6. Naming and Giving Voice: Rethinking the ways in which adopted women and biological fathers have been constituted 7. Who am I?: Adopted women’s storied and subject positions 8. Becoming an Adoptive Subject Interlude 3 9. Multiple Voices/Multiple Selves Conclusion Appendix References

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Hughes, Elizabeth (Birkbeck Hughes, Hughes Elizabeth
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2017
• EAN: 9781138691001
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69100-1
• No. of pages: 175
• Series: Women and Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Adoption, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Social, group or collective psychology, Adoption & fostering, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Adoption and fostering