Everybody Else: Adoption and the Politics of Domestic Diversity in Postwar America

by Sarah Potter

Book Overview

In the popular imagination, the twenty years after World War II are associated with simpler, happier, more family-focused living. We think of stereotypical baby boom families like the Cleavers--white, suburban, and well on their way to middle-class affluence. For these couples and their children, a happy, stable family life provided an antidote to the anxieties and uncertainties of the emerging nuclear age.

But not everyone looked or lived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820344168
• ISBN13: 9780820344164
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"