Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories

Gretchen: Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood


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Gretchen Sisson, PhD is a qualitative sociologist who studies abortion and adoption in the United States, based at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, a ten-year examination of adoption relinquishment during the years of Roe.

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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, by Gretchen Sisson

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