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The politics of adoption : gender and the making of French citizenship /

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'The Politics of Adoption' argues that adoption is not a mere family question. It conveys a model of citizenship. Policies, jurisprudence, and social work define an ideal image of parenthood in the hope to better control the making of future citizens. In a context of laws and debates on bi...

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Main Author: Perreau, Bruno
Other Authors: Dusinberre, Deke (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Series:Basic bioethics
Subjects:
Adoption > Government policy > France.
Adoption > Moral and ethical aspects > France.
PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
PHILOSOPHY/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
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Summary:'The Politics of Adoption' argues that adoption is not a mere family question. It conveys a model of citizenship. Policies, jurisprudence, and social work define an ideal image of parenthood in the hope to better control the making of future citizens. In a context of laws and debates on bioethics, this model is more and more infused with representations of the fertile body. Adoptive parents are thus expected to behave as if they were biological parents.
Item Description:"This work originally appeared under the title Penser l'adoption, Presses Universitaires de France, 2012."
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9780262323383
0262323389
1306731038
9781306731034
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262027229.001.0001