03785oam 2200601I 450 991016487210332120240505202208.01-138-69101-11-315-53637-41-315-53635-810.4324/9781315536378 (CKB)3710000001060424(MiAaPQ)EBC4809814(OCoLC)973222958(BIP)56713824(BIP)59119901(EXLCZ)99371000000106042420180706d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAdopted women and biological fathers re-imagining stories of origin and trauma /Elizabeth Hughes1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,2017.1 online resource (188 pages)Women and Psychology1-138-69100-3 1-315-53636-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Wounded women : the discursive construction of adoption and maternal separation trauma -- 2. Trauma culture -- 3. Adopted women and the missing father : paternal absence and the production of truth -- 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 stories and subject positions -- 8. Becoming an adoptive subject -- 9. Multiple voices/multiple selves.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. Women and psychology.AdopteesPsychologyAdoptionPsychological aspectsBirthfathersFathers and daughtersWomenIdentityAdopteesPsychology.AdoptionPsychological aspects.Birthfathers.Fathers and daughters.WomenIdentity.362.82/98Hughes Elizabeth1978-,976295MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910164872103321Adopted women and biological fathers2223877UNINA