Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

by Gretchen Sisson

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Relinquished by Gretchen Sisson Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description WINNER, THE 2026 ADELE CLARK BOOK AWARDFINALIST, NONFICTION, NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS, 2024 FINALIST, 2024 GODDARD RIVERSIDE STEPHAN RUSSO BOOK PRIZE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Essential reading. --NPR Books We Love Dares to imagine a different world where Americans treat adoption like the justice issue it is. Washington Post Impressively reported...[Sisson] uses her deep well of knowledge to make the case that adoption is no solution for Americans reduced access to abortion. San Francisco ChronicleA powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about our country s refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace an individual, private solution to a large-scale, social problem. With the recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health Organization revoking abortion protections, we are i

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Year: 2024
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781250286772
• Condition: Fine

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