Reproductive Justice, Adoption, and Foster Care

ISBN-13: 9781032301068 / Twarda / 2024 / 152 str.

Krista L. Benson

Opis

This book connects adoption/foster care with human rights, Critical Adoption Studies, Reproductive Justice, and transnational feminisms.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction  Interlude: A Transracial Adoptee Writing Herself Into Existence: Interlude with Shannon Gibney  Chapter 2. “Systems of Care” in Foster Care and Adoption  Interlude: Wrestling with Colonial Legacies of Iñupiaq Family Separation: Interlude with Roo Ramos  Chapter 3. Transnational Adoption & Indigenous Sovereignty  Interlude: Constellations of National Economies, Family Separation, Military Occupation in the Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex: Interlude with Kimberly D. McKee  Chapter 4. Juvenile Justice, Foster Care, & Adoption  Interlude: Creative Resistance for and By System-Involved Young People: Interlude with Lizbett Benge  Chapter 5. Reimagining Care & Community: The Right to Parent  Interlude: Visions of the Future Through Indigenous Human Rights: Interlude with Julian Aguon

O autorze

 Tanya Saroj Bakhru is a professor and program coordinator of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at San Jose State University. She holds a PhD in Women’s Studies from University College Dublin in Ireland. Her research focuses on transnational women's health movements and reproductive justice. 

Krista L. Benson is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University, teaching in LGBT Studies, Integrative Studies, and Digital Studies. They hold a PhD from The Ohio State University with an interdisciplinary specialization in Sexuality Studies. Their research focuses on how co-constitution of sexuality, gender, race, and Indigenous sovereignty impact marginalized people, especially children and young adults and those involved with the criminal injustice system at all ages.