ASAC Publications

Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption by John McLeod (review)
By Margaret Homans
Adoption & Culture
The Ohio State University Press
Volume 5, 2017
pp. 130-134
Click to read: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2017.0003
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Interpersonal Communication
By Sara Docan-Morgan
Adoption & Culture
The Ohio State University Press
Volume 4, 2014
pp. 98-102
The sources chosen for the Communication Studies portion of this bibliography represent an exciting, diverse, and emerging body of work. In this list, readers will find work that is quantitative and qualitative, covering both domestic and international. Despite this diversity, all selections reflect an orientation to the discipline of communication, which examines “how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, cultures, channels, and media” (National). Articles and chapters in this bibliography explore messages regarding , whether these are exchanged face-to-face or through a medium such as the Internet. All selections were authored by at least one researcher whose primary disciplinary identity, or “academic home,” is in Studies.
Click to read: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2014.0012
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"Since its inception over fifteen years ago, the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (ASAC) has been bringing together humanities and social science scholars to create the interdisciplinary field of Critical Adoption Studies. Although she missed the inaugural conference in Tampa in 2005, Elizabeth Raleigh was first introduced to this organization at the Pittsburgh conference in 2007. Since then, she has been a steadfast attendee and participant. In many ways, her own scholarly trajectory grew in tandem with ASAC's. In this conversational , she reflects on the evolution of critical adoption studies and how it shaped her as an academic. Tackling questions such as the most productive lines of inquiry in adoption studies; the disciplinary and topical edges of the field; and the areas that are ripe for future research, in this short piece, Raleigh probes the paradoxes of adoptive and biogenetic connection."
"Reflections of an Adoptee Researcher: Elizabeth Raleigh's Musings on Critical Adoption Studies"
By Elizabeth Raleigh
Adoption & Culture
The Ohio State University Press
Volume 9, Issue 2, 2021
pp. 341-346
Click to read in full:
https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2021.0016
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"My study of forty-three published by people with the three closest relations to adoption shows some frequent patterns. Birth mothers didn't realize how hard it would be to deal with relinquishment, adoptive parents could have used more information, adoption agencies and professionals are often negligent or deceptive, most adoptees want to know more about their family history. These memoirs mostly support moving toward more openness and a more inclusive understanding of and . If their insights are taken seriously, the proportion of adoptions with greater degrees of openness is likely to increase in the future."
"Memoirs and the Future of Adoption"
By Marianne Novy
Adoption & Culture
The Ohio State University Press
Volume 9, Issue 2, 2021
pp. 308-324
Click to read on Project MUSE: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2021.0014
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