White Unwed Mother; The Adoption Mandate in Postwar Canada

by Valerie Andrews

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772581720
• ISBN13: 9781772581720
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Demeter Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"