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

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 h...

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Autor principal: Potter, Sarah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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