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Shadow Mothers : Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering / / Cameron Lynne Macdonald



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Autore: Macdonald Cameron Lynne Visualizza persona
Titolo: Shadow Mothers : Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering / / Cameron Lynne Macdonald Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina: 306.874/3
Soggetto topico: Au pairs
Child care
Child care services
Motherhood
Nannies
Soggetto non controllato: american nannies
attachment
au pairs
career paths
caregivers
childcare providers
childrearing
complex bonds
conflicts
contemporary motherhood
cultural perspective
cultural social
europe
gender
hired mothers
immigrant caregivers
maternity
micropolitics
modern issues
motherhood
mothering
nannies
nonfiction
paid care
paid childcare
parenthood
parenting
professional women
relationships
social tensions
western world
women in the workforce
work schedules
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction: Childcare on Trial -- 2. Mother-Employers: Blanket Accountability at Home and at Work -- 3. Nannies on the Market -- 4. "They're Too Poor and They All Smoke": Ethnic Logics and Childcare Hiring Decisions -- 5. Managing a Home-Centered Childhood: Intensive Mothering by Proxy -- 6. Creating Shadow Mothers -- 7. The "Third-Parent" Ideal -- 8. Nanny Resistance Strategies -- 9. Partnerships: Seeking a New Model -- 10. Untangling the Mother-Nanny Knot -- Appendix: Research Methods -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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. Based on in-depth interviews with professional women and childcare providers- immigrant and American-born nannies as well as European au pairs-Shadow Mothers locates the roots of individual skirmishes between mothers and their childcare providers in broader cultural and social tensions. Macdonald argues that these conflicts arise from unrealistic ideals about mothering and inflexible career paths and work schedules, as well as from the devaluation of paid care work.
Titolo autorizzato: Shadow Mothers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27737-9
9786613277374
0-520-94781-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821308503321
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