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