[DOWNLOAD] "White Unwed Mother ; The adoption mandate in postwar Canada" by Valerie J Andrews # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: White Unwed Mother ; The adoption mandate in postwar Canada
- Author : Valerie J Andrews
- Release Date : January 01, 2018
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 14095 KB
Description
In postwar Canada, having a child out-of-wedlock invariably meant being subject to the adoption mandate. Andrews describes the mandate as a process of interrelated institutional power systems which, together with socio-cultural norms, ideals of gender heteronormativity, and emerging sociological and psychoanalytic theories, created historically unique conditions in the post WWII decades wherein the white unmarried mother was systematically separated from her baby by means of adoption. This volume uncovers and substantiates evidence of the mandate, ultimately finding that at least 350,000 unmarried mothers in Canada were impacted.