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. This book
takes as its focus the narratives of 14 adopted women, as well as
the partly fictionalised story of the author and examines their
experiences of birth father reunion in an attempt to dissect the
ways in which we understand adoptive female subjectivity through a
psychosocial lens. Opening a space for thinking about the role of
the discursively neglected biological father, this book exposes the
enigmatic dimensions of this figure and how telling the relational
story of 'reconciliation' might be used to complicate wider
categories of subjective completeness, belonging, and truth. This
book attempts to subvert the culturally normative unifying system
of the mother-child bond, and prompts the reader to think about
what the biological father might represent and how his role in
relation to adoptive female subjects may be understood. This book
will be essential reading for those in critical psychology, gender
studies, narrative work, sociology and psychosocial studies, as
well as appealing to anyone interested in adoption issues and
female subjectivity.
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