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289 Index A Mother for Choco, 26, 124, 126–31 Abjection: adolescence and, 206–08; Butler on, 28, 199–200; of children, 9, 19, 28, 81, 209; counter-identification and, 208; of foreigners, 213; Kristeva on, 28, 205–06, 208, 264; of mothers, 15–16, 28, 205, 208; as narcissistic crisis, 206; phenomenology of, 208; of polygamists, 226, 234; resistance to, 29; self-formation and, 17, 189, 200, 205–08, 251, 262 Abortion, 41, 44–45, 155, 259 Adolescence: abjection, and 189, 206–07, 264n.6; as excuse, 204; as pathologized, 203–04; as queer, 203–04; symptoms of, 203; theories of, 203–04, 206, 264n.5; tolerance and, 209. See also Teenagers. Adopted children: affective labor of, 25, 38, 101; as “bad seed,” 203; “as-if-begotten,” 80, 111– 12; best interests of, 98, 109; commodification of, 38, 107; complex identities of, 25, 88, 98–100, 102, 104, 106–08, 115, 126, 128, 130, 137–38, 140–41, 149, 191, 261n.10, 262n.11; as gift; 37, 40, 86–87; as invisible, 76, 111; and melancholia, 25, 88, 109, 115, 163; as orphans, 88; perspectives on children’s literature, 124–41; as “placed,” 130; as queer, 25, 88, 132, 138, 140; struggles making room for two mothers, 26, 114–16, 124–25, 162–63; voices of 98–109. See also Borshay Liem; Moffat. Adoption: adoption triangle, 76, 254; anti-essentialism and, 59, 68; as consumer process, 22, 34, 37–38, 88, 97; gay and lesbian, 14, 38, 40, 86; as violent gift, 93; as humanitarian endeavor, 91–95, 97; as inferior to reproduction, 61, 66; as kidnapping, 86–88, 95, 96; maternal profiling and, 54; monomaternalism and, 8; neo-colonialism and, 25; as normalized, 15, 21; polymaternalism and, 22; as queer kinship, 22, 24, 28, 33; second-parent, 79. See also Closed adoption; Open adoption; Transnational adoption; Transracial adoption. Adoption and Safe Families Act, 94 Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act, 94 290 Index Adoptive families: as “as-if” genealogical families, 22, 112, 220; as deviant, 23; and difference, 81–82, 128; as good, 23; as heteronormative, 21; as less than “real,” 70; as privileged, 65–66, 99–100; as queer, 12, 82, 128; queer affective geographies of, 22 108–09; as sites of colonization, 88. See also Foster care; Foster families. Adoptive mothers: as agents, 70–74; ambiguous status of, 5, 24; as closeted, 75; as “coming out,” 76; as deviant, 61, 68, 76, 82; differences from biological mothers, 23–24, 61, 63–66, 68–70; as discursively constructed, 67; dominant scripts and, 44–45, 69; dual consciousness of, 58; embrace of difference, 80–82; as good mothers, 23; “as-ifgeneological ,” 9, 82; as invisible, 75–76; as nonprocreative adults, 24, 71–71, 82; as passing, 23–24, 66; perspectives on adoption compared to birth mothers, 85–88; as privileged, 36, 38–39, 44–45, 112, 139; as queer, 9, 139–40; relationship to birth mothers, 12–13, 33, 45–46, 78–79, 112, 148–49, 254; resistance to repronormativity, 80; resistance to reprosexuality, 77, 82; as role-playing, 69–70; as subject to surveillance, 23–24, 63–66, 68. See also Foster mothers. Agency: children’s agency, 26, 125, 195, 262–63n.11; caregiving and, 248; maternal agency, 72, 173, 182–83, 248, 260n.5; postmodernism and, 182–83; technology use and, 171, 173, 178, 180; women’s agency, 262–63n.11 Ahmed, Leila, 216 Ahmed, Sara, 17, 22, 23, 27, 33–37, 41–42, 48, 52, 56, 133, 160–61, 188, 212, 226, 245, 248–49, 263n.1 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 94, 113 Allen, Jeffner, 86, 262 Analogous beings, 16 137–38, 140, 144, 145, 149, 251. See also Whitbeck. Ang, Ien, 211, 213 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 250, 260n.1 Are You My Mother? 26, 124, 126–28, 133 Arendt, Hannah, 250 Ashe, Marie, 135 Assemblages: cyborgs as, 27, 171–72; families as, 27, 29, 156, 163–65, 174, 182, 219, 221–22, 223, 226, 236, 245; mothers as, 156, 165, 171–72, 175, 179; queer, 153–86, 245; terrorist, 156. See also De Landa; Deleuze and Guattari; Puar. Assimilation, 8–9, 57, 100–01, 103, 132, 142, 163, 201, 208, 263n.1 Attentive love, 26, 143, 247 Bachelard, Gaston, 212–13 Backus, Margot Gayle, 76 Bad child, 132, 134 Bad mothers: blackening of, 23, 54; Casey Anthony, 49, 51, 53–54; controlling mothers, 16, 197–98, 208; crack mothers, 16, 51; 55; Darlie Router, 49, 51–52, 55; FLDS mothers, 244...
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