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Flashcards by Rebecca Howard, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rebecca Howard
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| Question | Answer |
| What are Modell's (1994) key points? | - American ideal about kinship is blood - Adoption will always be self conscious - The challenge of being a stranger to a child one gave birth to |
| What does Modell (1994) mean by the 'fiction' of adoption? | - A person raises a stranger as ‘one’s own’ - A person forgets a child of ‘their flesh and blood’ - A child constructs identity out of having been chosen rather than born. |
| How could adoptive kinship be argued to not be kinship at all? | - Adoptive kinship could be argued to be a biological construct - Adoptive kinship copies biological relations |
| What are the basic assumptions of kinship? | Biology vs Conduct |
| When did adoptive reunions first begin to occur? | 1970s |
| What is the premise of adoptive children? | - Birth parents strangers to their children |
| What are adoptive children's feelings towards their adoptive and biological parents? | - They have a missing link in identity (birth, birthdays, sickness) - They want the truth more than a relationship - ‘My adoptive mother is my real mother – she raised me’ |
| Adoptive relations = ... | - Fictive relations which are created/made/crafted - chosen/optative |
| What are Howell's (2003) key points? | - Biogenetic vs. social relatedness (biology very important in Norway) - 'Kinning' - significant and permanent relationships through idioms of kinship - ‘transubstantiation’ - changing essence without exterior (feel and act Norwegian) - Temporal practices of kinning give adoptive child a sense of belonging - Tourism confirms Norwegian identity - taken back to place of birth yet have no connection therefore feel more Norwegian |
| What are Weston's (1991) key points? | - Gay kinship is fictive yet so are all relationships - Hierarchy of biogenetic relations (those who aren't biologically related are less important/real) - Gay kinship to be treated as a historical transformation rather than a derivative of kinship |
| What does Weston (1991) argue? | The creation of lesbian and gay families involves: 1. The ownership of existing cultural resources 2. A critique of dominant notions of kinship in the US - Challenging procreative foundation of kinship - Creating new relationships; new categories |
| How does Weston (1991) describe choice? | - As an organising principle - Establishing a cooperative history rather than assumed solidarity - Chosen families replacement rather than successors to biological family |
| How does Weston (1991) explain friends and lovers? | - Friendship as extension of kinship - The development of non-erotic relationships between homosexuals: ‘just friend’ ... ‘more than friend’ - continuum between lovers, friends and family: lovers and friends under a single construct. |
| How does Weston (1991) describe gay and lesbian communities through the years? | 1960s: knowledge that lesbians and gay men joining together on the basis of a sexual identity, could create enduring social ties 1970s: alternative, egalitarian and non-erotic (like friendship). Gays and lesbians were family. Community like ‘home’ coming-out = coming home. Post 1970s: politics of difference–racism/ sexism/ individualism ‘I was just me in a gay world’. |
| How does Weston (1991) describe parenting in the age of AIDs? | - Loss of option to be fathers for men. - AIDS blamed on sexual identity rather than activity. |
| When was Modell's work on 'Kinship with Strangers' published? | 1994 |
| When was Howell's work on 'Kinning in Norway' published? | 2003 |
| When was Weston's work on 'Families We Choose' published? | 1991 |
| How does Modell (1994) describe adoptive kinship as fictive? | - As if adoptive parents begot the child - As if the birth parents are childless - As if the child is begotten. |
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