Recognising Adoptee Relationships

With a triadic perspective, this autoethnographic narrative explores the temporal, situated nature of interactions between the author as an adoptee with her adult adopted children as well as those between herself and her birth father and mother.

List of contents

Part I - An Adoptee's Critical Autoethnography
1. In-between-ness and belonging
2. Autoethnography
Part II - Stories of Adoptive Kinship
3. "You're not my real mum!"
4. Recognition as love
5. Darkest February
6. Five years later
7. My lineage

About the author

Christine A. Lewis is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University. She is an adoptee, adoptive mother, and birth daughter. Her research interests include autoethnographic, autobiographic, and narrative accounts of adoption, and estrangement in families. Her recent chapter on family estrangement is entitled "Blood is thicker than water!" (2022).

Summary

With a triadic perspective, this autoethnographic narrative explores the temporal, situated nature of interactions between the author as an adoptee with her adult adopted children as well as those between herself and her birth father and mother.

Product details

• Authors: Christine A. Lewis, Christine A. (Edge Hill University Lewis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9780367494940
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49494-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Adoption, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Adoption & fostering, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Adoption and fostering