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Rematriation and adoption.

February 23, 2014 · by Daniel Drennan ElAwar | in General Adoption | tagged adoption, feminism, rematriation, repatriation, women | 3 Comments

I was describing my return to Lebanon to someone and the word “repatriated” came out of my mouth. It went without notice, but I was stuck on this term afterward, and it was bothering me to refer to myself this way. For one reason, it seemed too much to echo “expatriate” as well as “patriarchy”; […]

Adoption and women.

August 30, 2012 · by Daniel Drennan ElAwar | in Adoptee Roundtable | tagged feminism, misogyny, women's rights | 10 Comments

Arline’s comment (“here is a shout that will stand up for millions of women and freedom for adoptees”) set me to thinking about the role of women on both sides of the adoption event/divide, in the sense that it maps on to a support for adoption from the so-called “progressive” end of the political spectrum […]

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