(M)othering loss: Telling adoption stories, telling performativity

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 113-135

  Jones, Stacy Holman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption stories; Performativity; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006544266     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930500122716     Document Type: Article

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