Adoption Matters courageously examines how adoption influences and challenges our society's understanding of the intersection of family and identity 'an intersection that is both deeply personal and highly political.' -Abigail Garner, author of Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is In this distinctive collection of essays, the authors illuminate adoption by bringing feminist theory ... Read moreto bear on it, and they expand and enrich feminist theory by making it respond to their own personal experience as adoptive parents or as adoptees. -Joan Heifetz Hollinger, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, editor of Adoption Law and Practice and coeditor of Families by Law: An Adoption Reader In this provocative collection, thirteen feminist scholars (most of whom are adoptive mothers or adopted daughters) consider adoption within the conceptual framework of family. Integrating philosophy and personal experience, the contributors explore the privileging of the heterosexual family, biologism, and whiteness and unpack the effects of dominant social norms on the individual and family. -Library Journal Show Less