Call for papers: The Culture of Adoption

The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA
February 14–17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
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Call for Papers: The culture of adoption.
Proposals of 250-500 words due to me by 15 November
holtfort_at_oswego.edu

Adoption has increased as a way of forming families or
adding to biological families. In this new area I am
looking for papers that explore the culture of
adoptionI am looking for papers that explore (but are
not limited to):
 Who adopts and why?
What is the impact on the family of adoption?
Have attitudes changed and why?
The economics of adoption
Open vs closed adoption
The adoption disconnect from both sides, i.e. how the
child is different, how the parents are puzzled?
The politics of international adoption
Blended families, adoptive families, adopted children
Searching for the biological
Cultural impact and retention in trans-ethnic adoption
Literary adoption, how are adoption and adoptees
treated in literature.
The literature of adoption—books about, especially
children's literature.

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple,
 what might you have done for a truffled turkey?"
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)

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