ABSTRACT
Holman Jones's scholarly focus is on performance as a critical approach to understanding differences and analyzing how identity particularly gender identity is created through communication. She is a feminist writer, feminist who writes about women as they perform their lives, resisting the repressive hegemonic influences of society, as they use their bodies, minds, and presence to challenge cultural constructions of gender and ways of being. She writes of adoption of adopting a child; adopting families and family stories, adopting selves and others; adopting an identity. She writes of being the descendant of an adoptee, of being the mother of an adoptee. She writes of auto ethnography as a queer method, as resistance to hegemonic way of understanding ourselves and others, as resistance to the traditional ways of knowing and being. She writes in a conversational and performative style that blurs the line between academic writing and narrative and that draws her readers in with evocative writing and mesmerizes with depth.
