Children's Interests/Mother's Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy - Brossura

Michel, Sonya

 
9780300085518: Children's Interests/Mother's Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy

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Why is the United States one of the few advanced democratic market societies that do not offer child care as a universal public benefit or entitlement? This book?a comprehensive history of child care policy and practices in the United States from the colonial period to the present?shows why the current child care system evolved as it has and places its history within a broad comparative context.

Drawing on a full range of archival material, Sonya Michel shows how child care policy in the United States was shaped by changing theories of child development and early childhood education, attitudes toward maternal employment, and conceptions of the proper roles of low-income and minority women. And she argues that the present policy?erratic, inadequate, and stigmatized?is typical of the American way of doing welfare.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Sonya Michel is Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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9780300059519: Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy

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ISBN 10:  0300059515 ISBN 13:  9780300059519
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 1999
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