A couple of years ago, I was taken aback by a paragraph, a tone, a disdain in an essay, "Confessions of a Worrywart: Ruminations on a Lesbian Feminist Overview" by Karla Jay that insinuated that feminists, lesbian feminists in particular, who adopted children from other countries were participants in cultural genocide as well as child trafficking, baby-selling. The equation of adoption=genocide =/or baby selling is a common one. I was shocked and disgusted to read such propaganda in a feminist essay. More importantly, I felt suddenly alienated from the feminist theorists and theories, writers and writings, activists and activism I studied and followed and practiced all these years. And yet, that essay was only the beginning. I found other essays and writings on family law, women/gender, etc

So, the good researcher, I dug up additional opinions and theories and writers. I am definitely in the minority as a feminist who believes international adoption does not equate to baby selling, genocide or general abrogation of women's rights. Some gleanings, in no particular order, feminist and otherwise:

Adoption Rights page of a section on Women and Global Human Rights provides an overview of the linkage of adoption and child trafficking, history of adoption in the US, emergence of open adoption and intercountry adoption.
Having and Raising Children: Unconventional Families, Hard Choices, and the Social Good, Edited by Uma Narayan and Julia J. Bartkowiak, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999

Barrett, Susan E., and Carol M. Aubin. "Feminist Considerations of Intercountry Adoptions." Women & Therapy 10.1-2 (1990): 127-138.

Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays, ed., Charlotte Witt and Sally Haslanger (Boulder, CO: Cornell University Press, 2004). Dr. Haslanger is a feminist and adoptive parent. I really want to read this book.

Michelle Van Leeuwen, The Politics of Adoptions Across Borders: Whose Interests Are Served?, 8 Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal 189-218 (1999)

Abstract: China is currently the leading source of babies for intercountry adoption in the United States. This Comment explores the causes of this phenomenon, and the ability of the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption to serve the interests of both the abandoned and orphaned children, and the adoptive parents under these specific circumstances.

International Brief (pages 26): Useful charts showing which countries have signed on to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions Concerning Custody of Children and the Restoration of Custody of Children, the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, International Family Law
[above citations found in Fam-Law Lit Survey of Current Periodical Literature Addressing Family Law Issues by Laura Morgan, Esquire]

International Adoption: The Most Logical Solution to the Disparity Between the Numbers of Orphaned and Abandoned Children in Some Countries and Families and Individuals Wishing to Adopt in Others? by Sara Wallace in Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law

Deborah Kay, THE 1993 HAGUE CONVENTION ON PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND CO-OPERATION IN RESPECT OF INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION: POTENTIAL FOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE New England International and Comparative Law Annual.

Survey of law review articles on adoption