Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-2923-6 (ISBN)
During the twentieth century, child care policy in British Columbia matured in the shadow of a political uneasiness with working motherhood. Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma examines how ideas about motherhood, paid work, and social welfare influenced universal child care discussions and consistently pushed access to child care to the margins of BC’s social policy agenda. Charting the growth of the child care movement in this province, Lisa Pasolli examines the arrival of Vancouver’s first crèche in 1912, the teetering steps forward during the debates of the interwar years, the development of provincial child care policy, the rebellious advancements of second-wave feminists in the 1960s and 1970s, and the maturation of provincial and national child care politics since the mid-70s. In addition to revealing much about historical attitudes toward women’s roles, Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma celebrates the efforts of mothers and advocates who, for decades, have lobbied for child care as a central part of women’s rights as workers, parents, and citizens.
Lisa Pasolli is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. She researches the history of child care, social welfare, and women and gender in twentieth-century Canada. Her work has been published in BC Studies and Acadiensis.
Introduction
1 “A proper independent spirit”: The Vancouver City Crèche, 1909–20
2 “Self help is to be encouraged to the fullest extent”: Working Mothers and the State in the Interwar Years
3 “It takes real mothers and real homes to make real children”: Child Care Debates during and after the Second World War
4 “The working mother is here to stay”: The Making of Provincial Child Care Policy in the 1960s
5 “Talkin’ Day Care Blues”: Feminist Child Care Battles in the 1960s and 1970s
6 “The feeling lingers that day care just isn’t nice”: Provincial and National Child Care Politics since the Mid-1970s
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
Zusatzinfo | 5 b&w photos |
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Verlagsort | Vancouver |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7748-2923-0 / 0774829230 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-2923-6 / 9780774829236 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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