Everybody else [electronic resource] : adoption and the politics of domestic diversity in postwar America / Sarah Potter.

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.

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