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Everybody else

Potter, Sarah.

Everybody else adoption and the politics of domestic diversity in postwar America / [electronic resource] : Sarah Potter. - Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Based on the author's dissertation at the University of Chicago.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The difference of adoption : domestic diversity and adoption practice in the postwar period -- Embracing domesticity : the great depression, the great migration, and World War II -- Defining domesticity : family ideals in everyday life -- Providing anxiety and optimism : domestic masculinity -- Nurturing frustration and entitlement : domestic femininity -- Constructing domesticity : family ideals and residential space in postwar chicago -- To take some responsibility for community problems : domesticity and good -- Citizenship -- Conclusion : the postwar family and American politics.

9780820346960 0820346969


Families--United States--20th century.
Adoptive parents--United States--20th century.
Adoption--United States--20th century.


Electronic books.

HV875.55 / .P684 2014

362.7340973/09045