Abstract
This thrice-told tale has shown why the story of the Baby Girls from China in New York requires multiple tellings. First, multiple tellings expose the multiple contexts and perspectives that drive these adoptions, from those of the desperate birth mothers in rural China to those of the hopeful adoptive parents in New York. Second, multiple tellings destabilize and problematize our understandings of law. Laws enacted in China to promote women's equality led, paradoxically, to an increase in abandoned baby girls. Multiple tellings may not answer the question of well-intentioned human rights activists, but they remind us of the brutal prerogatives of state sovereignty, and the risks of feel-good responses.
Recommended Citation
Stark, Barbara
(2003)
"Baby Girls from China in New York: A Thrice-Told Tale,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 2003:
No.
4, Article 3.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2003/iss4/3