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This chapter outlines in detail three points of critique that we believe are central to critical kinship studies, namely kinship as a nodal point of power, kinship and the ‘natural order of things’, and lastly the valorization of genetic relatedness.
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Note that there is no equivalent idiom with respect to questioned maternity, underscoring the foundational premise that mothers always, invariably, grow their offspring. And, indeed, ‘gestational mother’ cements this with respect to egg or embryo donation (Nordqvist & Smart, 2014).
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Riggs, D.W., Peel, E. (2016). Objects of Critique. In: Critical Kinship Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50505-7_2
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