Shadow mothers: nannies, au pairs, and the micropolitics of mothering
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1. Verfasser: Macdonald, Cameron Lynne (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index
Introduction: childcare on trial -- Mother-employers: blanket accountability at home and at work -- Nannies on the market -- "They're too poor and they all smoke": ethnic logics and childcare hiring decisions -- Managing a home-centered childhood: intensive mothering by proxy -- Creating shadow mothers -- The "third-parent" ideal -- Nanny resistance strategies -- Partnerships: seeking a new model -- Untangling the mother-nanny knot
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Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 272 pages)
ISBN:0520947819
9780520947818

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