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Steeped in Blood - Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family (Paperback)
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Steeped in Blood - Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family (Paperback)
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What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in
adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biological ties are
essentially different when it comes to understanding who we are? At
a time when interest in DNA and ancestry is exploding, Frances
Latchford questions the idea that knowing one's bio-genealogy is
integral to personal identity or a sense of family and belonging.
Upending our established values and beliefs about what makes a
family, Steeped in Blood examines the social and political
devaluation of adoptive ties. It takes readers on an intellectual
journey through accepted wisdom about adoption, twins, kinship, and
incest, and challenges our naturalistic and individualistic
assumptions about identity and the biological ties that bind us,
sometimes violently, to our families. Latchford exposes how our
desire for bio-genealogical knowledge, understood as it is by
family and adoption experts, pathologizes adoptees by posing the
biological tie as a necessary condition for normal identity
formation. Rejecting the idea that a love of the self-same is
fundamental to family bonds, her book is a reaction to the wounds
families suffer whenever they dare to revel in their difference. A
rejoinder to rhetoric that defines adoptees, adoptive kin, and
their family intimacies as inferior and inauthentic, Steeped in
Blood's view through the lens of critical adoption studies
decentres our cultural obsession with the biological family
imaginary and makes real the possibility of being family in the
absence of blood.
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