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Child care and inequality : rethinking carework for children and youth / edited by Francesca M. Cancian, Demie Kurz, Andrew S. London, Rebecca Reviere, Mary C. Tuominen.
Van Pelt Library HQ778.63 .C52 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizens Association for Racial Equality.
- Child care--United States.
- Child care.
- Youth with social disabilities.
- United States.
- Children with social disabilities--Care--United States.
- Children with social disabilities.
- Children with social disabilities--Care.
- Youth with social disabilities--Care--United States.
- Child welfare--United States.
- Child welfare.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 266 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Contents:
- I Rethinking Family Carework
- 1 American Women Tending Sick and Disabled Children, 1850-1940 / Emily K. Abel 11
- 2 Poor Mothers and the Care of Teenage Children / Demie Kurz 23
- 3 Las Madres en el Barrio: Godmothers, Othermothers, and Women's Power in a Community of Caregiving / JoAnn DeFiore 37
- 4 Nurturing Babies, Protecting Men: The Unequal Dynamics of Women's Postpartum Caregiving Practices / Christa Kelleher, Bonnie Fox 51
- 5 Defining "Good" Child Care: Hegemonic and Democratic Standards / Francesca M. Cancian 65
- II Family Intersections with the State
- 6 Making Poor Mothers Fungible: The Privatization of Foster Care / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse 83
- 7 Children and Chronic Health Conditions: Welfare Reform and Health-Related Carework / Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott, Vicki Hunter 99
- 8 Caregiving, Welfare States, and Mothers' Poverty / Karen Christopher 113
- III Carework in the Marketplace and Community
- 9 Care, Inequality, and Policy / Paula England, Nancy Folbre 133
- 10 Child Care across Sectors: A Comparison of the Work of Child Care in Three Settings / Heather M. Fitz Gibbon 145
- 11 Empowering Forces: Professional Careworkers in the Support Networks of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth / Eric R. Wright, Robert E. Connoley 159
- 12 Support Organizations for Parents of Children with Cancer: Local, National, and International Problems and Prospects / Mark Chesler 175
- 13 "Where Teachers Can Make a Livable Wage": Organizing to Address Gender and Racial Inequalities in Paid Child Care Work / Mary C. Tuominen 193
- 14 Activist Mothering and Community Work: Fighting Oppression in Low-income Neighborhoods / Nancy A. Naples 207.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415933501
- 041593351X
- OCLC:
- 49384125
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