The View From Home: Philosophical And Feminist Issues In Adoption

by Sally Haslanger

This collection of essays by philosophers, legal theorists and feminists explores the cultural assumptions surrounding the institution of adoption. Its contributors use the prism of adoption to illuminate and to question the unarticulated presuppositions that underline traditional thinking on a wide range of issues important to feminist philosophy, including mothering, the family, racial, ethnic and cultural identity, and personal identity.

256 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Sally Haslanger is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.