Closed Adoption Policy in the 1960s: Exploring the construction of motive through fiction - Couverture souple

Major, Carol

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3838323696 ISBN 13 : 9783838323695

Editeur : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

The closed adoption policy that saw hundreds of thousands of white babies relinquished by their unmarried mothers in many western countries was among a range of seemingly humane social engineering projects popular during the 1950s and 60s. The policy was abandoned in the 1970s with subsequent investigations of the practice revealing human rights abuse. Yet so many acts are undertaken in the context of a time?a context that blinkers society to the pain inflicted, until the context mutates. This book explores the social construction of individual motivation and the uses of fiction in exposing that construction. In doing so it opens up a dialogue between psychology and literary theory. Connections are made between the closed adoption policy, the removal of Aboriginal children from their families in Australia, and the conscription and later shaming of soldiers sent to fight the War in Vietnam. The work includes an exegesis and a work of fiction titled, ?A Certain Kindness?.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3838323696
• ISBN 13: 9783838323695
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible