TY - JOUR
AU - Potter, Sarah
AB - Book Reviews 817 and discriminating against people of color, the the American Adoption Congress, Paton pr - o G.I. Bill was not so much a departure from the vided support, community, and intellectual New Deal, but rather, as Allen so aptly argues, nourishment to those touched by adoption. the “logical outcome” of a long decade of but - An adopted child herself, Paton devoted de - tressing white straight men’s cultural authority cades of her life to studying the experiences of during the depression and the war (p. 207). adopted people and then using that data to or - This volume will be an important companion ganize for adoption reform. to Margot Canaday The ’s Straight State (2009). Paton was brilliant and passionate, but she Although Allen gives readers brief glimpses could also be a difficult figure to truly under - of similar narratives in depression-era popular stand. She engaged in many fights with long - culture, more attention to the ways that - Htime ol allies, sometimes took stances that were lywood, radio, and pulp literature and maga - at odds with many other adoption activists, zines popularized or reinforced these cultural and had a quirky (sometimes-impenetrable) narratives 
TI - Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jaw446
DA - 2016-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/jean-paton-and-the-struggle-to-reform-american-adoption-VQwWJs5pQv
SP - 817
EP - 818
VL - 103
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -