Be Grateful or Be Quiet

In this paper, I introduce a new term, adoptism, to characterize the unique form(s) of marginalization to which adopted persons are subjected. Adoptism shows up primarily as enforced gratitude, and this injunction to be grateful carries with it epistemic harms that have heretofore been overlooked...

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Main Author: Michele Merritt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Western Ontario 2024-09-01
Series:Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
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Online Access:https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/15240