Sandra Patton‐imani
Biographic Data
| ID | 4450220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Patton‐imani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Patton‐imani |
| SIGNATURE | IMANI S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drake University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Legitimacy and the Transfer of Children: Adoption, Belonging, and Online Genealogy
A great deal of both scholarly and public attention has been paid to questions of nature versus nurture in understanding identity and family construction in adoptees, yet much less attention has been given to the ways that power shapes the social reproduction of families through adoption. In this feminist interdisciplinary self-reflexive ethnographic research, I enter the world of online genealogy sites to critically explore the social practice o…
Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays
Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays. Edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. 336p. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. This is a fruitful collection of essays focusing on adoption in order to explore “deeply held but often tacit assumptions about what in human life is natural and what is social” (p. 1). The editors rightly recognize that adoption is a social practice through which family and i…
Redefining the Ethics of Adoption, Race, Gender, and Class
When I was a child, I had a book called The Chosen Baby. Originally written in 1939 by Valentina Wasson, the edition I was given had been revised and updated in 1950 (Wasson 1939). It is the book I, as an adoptee, was given to understand adoption- my origins. It is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, who had everything they could ask for, except one thing-they needed a baby to make their happiness complete (Patton 2000
Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays
Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays. Edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. 336p. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. This is a fruitful collection of essays focusing on adoption in order to explore “deeply held but often tacit assumptions about what in human life is natural and what is social” (p. 1). The editors rightly recognize that adoption is a social practice through which family and i…
Redefining the Ethics of Adoption, Race, Gender, and Class
When I was a child, I had a book called The Chosen Baby. Originally written in 1939 by Valentina Wasson, the edition I was given had been revised and updated in 1950 (Wasson 1939). It is the book I, as an adoptee, was given to understand adoption- my origins. It is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, who had everything they could ask for, except one thing-they needed a baby to make their happiness complete (Patton 2000
Redefining the Ethics of Adoption, Race, Gender, and Class
When I was a child, I had a book called The Chosen Baby. Originally written in 1939 by Valentina Wasson, the edition I was given had been revised and updated in 1950 (Wasson 1939). It is the book I, as an adoptee, was given to understand adoption- my origins. It is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, who had everything they could ask for, except one thing-they needed a baby to make their happiness complete (Patton 2000
Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays
Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays. Edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. 336p. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. This is a fruitful collection of essays focusing on adoption in order to explore “deeply held but often tacit assumptions about what in human life is natural and what is social” (p. 1). The editors rightly recognize that adoption is a social practice through which family and i…
Legitimacy and the Transfer of Children: Adoption, Belonging, and Online Genealogy
A great deal of both scholarly and public attention has been paid to questions of nature versus nurture in understanding identity and family construction in adoptees, yet much less attention has been given to the ways that power shapes the social reproduction of families through adoption. In this feminist interdisciplinary self-reflexive ethnographic research, I enter the world of online genealogy sites to critically explore the social practice o…
Child Welfare and Adoption (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Identity (music (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)