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Book Review: Giving up baby: Safe haven laws, motherhood, and reproductive justice

Book Review: Giving up baby: Safe haven laws, motherhood, and reproductive justice 274 Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 31(2) This book may be useful to individuals or couples who are in the depths of grief, feeling numb, or paralyzed in their new reality and cannot imagine how to take care of themselves or reengage life. In addition, social work clinicians and other practitioners may find the work sheets and activ- ities useful for bereaved clients, especially if they mindfully adapt the material to suit their client’s circumstances. Although Wenzel does not write from an overtly feminist or critical perspective, she offers a practical resource for the painful and disorienting experience of reproductive loss or trauma. Oaks, L. (2015). Giving up baby: Safe haven laws, motherhood, and reproductive justice. New York: New York University Press. 288 pp. $27.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4798-0636-2. Reviewed by: Maryam Khan, York University, Toronto, Canada DOI: 10.1177/0886109915616438 In Giving Up Baby, Laury Oaks critically interrogates from a feminist lens the discourses, ideolo- gies, and social and political practices that led to the institution of Safe Haven Laws (SHL) in the United States (1999–2009). SHL permit parents, usually a mother, ‘‘to relinquish a newborn legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location such as a hospital or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Review: Giving up baby: Safe haven laws, motherhood, and reproductive justice

Khan, Maryam
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work , Volume 31 (2): 2 – May 1, 2016
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10.1177/0886109915616438
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274 Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 31(2) This book may be useful to individuals or couples who are in the depths of grief, feeling numb, or paralyzed in their new reality and cannot imagine how to take care of themselves or reengage life. In addition, social work clinicians and other practitioners may find the work sheets and activ- ities useful for bereaved clients, especially if they mindfully adapt the material to suit their client’s circumstances. Although Wenzel does not write from an overtly feminist or critical perspective, she offers a practical resource for the painful and disorienting experience of reproductive loss or trauma. Oaks, L. (2015). Giving up baby: Safe haven laws, motherhood, and reproductive justice. New York: New York University Press. 288 pp. $27.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4798-0636-2. Reviewed by: Maryam Khan, York University, Toronto, Canada DOI: 10.1177/0886109915616438 In Giving Up Baby, Laury Oaks critically interrogates from a feminist lens the discourses, ideolo- gies, and social and political practices that led to the institution of Safe Haven Laws (SHL) in the United States (1999–2009). SHL permit parents, usually a mother, ‘‘to relinquish a newborn legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location such as a hospital or

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