Join us for an in-depth conversation with scholar, author, and advocate Gretchen Sisson, as we talk about her work and her new book Relinquished The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
4pm Pacific/6pm Central/7pm Eastern
As part of the event, we’ll also have a drawing for two attendees to receive a copy of Gretchen’s book, plus a drawing for an AncestryDNA kit for two others. Register before March 12 to be eligible, plus rules apply.
You can also order the book, which was released on February 27, 2024.
If I could, I’d make every judge and lawmaker in the country read this book. Gretchen Sisson’s Relinquished fills a critical hole in adoption scholarship—covering the years closest to present day—making clear that the ethical problems that have long plagued the industry aren’t just a matter of history. This is a vitally important book for all who care about reproductive justice and freedom, and a sorely needed corrective for anyone who thinks adoption is the solution to the destruction of reproductive choice.
Kathryn Joyce
Author, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
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Note: registration is free and remains open through the event, but registrations submitted after March 11, 2024, are not eligible for the book giveaway.
About the Author
Gretchen Sisson
Author, Scholar, Researcher
Gretchen Sisson, PhD, is a sociologist who studies abortion and adoption in the United States. She is a researcher at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, part of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
Gretchen is the author of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in February 2024. Her studies on adoption include hundreds of in-depth interviews with women who have relinquished infants for domestic adoption over the past 60 years, with a particular focus on women who have relinquished since Roe v. Wade.
Her research examining adoption decision-making after abortion denial (as part of The Turnaway Study) was cited in the Supreme Court’s dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health from Justices Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor. In response to the oral arguments and decision in Dobbs, she authored pieces in the Washington Post, The Nation, and the Washington Post (again). Gretchen’s research has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and Consider This, as well as in New York Magazine, VOX, and other outlets.Gretchen is represented by McKinnon Literary.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband, three children, and their little free library. She is a native of Pennsylvania, and an alumna of Amherst College and Boston College.
Giveaway Rules
The giveaway is for a total of four separate items: two copies of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood (“Relinquished”) and two standard AncestryDNA kits. The items will be shipped directly to each winner from Adoptees United or from a vendor selected by Adoptees United. Each winner must be registered for the event, must be in attendance at the event at the time of the drawing, and must claim the winning item at the event immediately after the drawing. Only one item will be provided to each winner. A winner of Relinquished may choose the format of the book, limited to Audible, Kindle, or a physical hard copy. Each winner must reside in the United States and provide a physical address for the shipment of the winning item. A person who has won a drawing at an Adoptees United event in the last year is not eligible for this drawing (I mean, give other people a chance 😜 ).