The Politics of Adoption: Gender and the Making of French Citizenship

by Bruno Perreau

An argument that French adoption policies reflect and enforce the state's notions of gender, parenthood, and citizenship.

In May 2013, after months of controversy, France legalized same-sex marriage and adoption by homosexual couples. Obstacles to adoption and parenting equality remain, however--many of them in the form of cultural and political norms reflected and expressed in French adoption policies. In The Politics of Adoption,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262027224
• ISBN13: 9780262027229
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher