Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery

ISBN-13: 9781009087414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Elizabeth (University of South Florida) Hordge-Freeman

Opis

A powerful account of the coexistence of exploitation and loving familial relationships in the lives of 'adoptive daughters' in Brazil.

Recenzje

an important and heartwrenching exposé of children saved from starvation through informal adoptions … Forcing us to not look away from current situations of trauma and abuse hidden within the domestic sphere, this book deepens our understanding of gendered and racialized violence in Brazil.' Jennifer Roth-Gordon, Social Forces

Spis treści

Introduction: 'An iron chain around your soul'; 1. Adopting modern slavery: Pathways into and discourses of criação; 2. 'Quase da família' (almost family): Affective ambiguity and family theater as strategies of domination; 3. Prisoners of love: Affective captivity and ruptures in the family ideology; 4. The depths and debts of gratitude: The moral code of criação; 5. Family bonds and bondage: Intra-generational relationships and the persistence of Criação; 6. Home sick: Health and disability among adult filhas de criação; 7. Freedom to 'live her liberty': From existence to resistance among filhas de criação; Conclusion: The last of our kind: Onward to freedom.