We
Are Not Babysitters
Price: $23.95
Subtitle: Family Childcare Providers
Redefine Work and Care
Author: Mary Tuominen
Subject: Sociology
Paper ISBN 978-0-8135-3283-7
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8135-3282-0
Pages: 256 pages
Publication Date: July 2003
Praise for We Are Not Babysitters
"The child-care literature is vast and dominated by
quantitative research of formal, institutionalized child-care settings.
Tuominen balances the scales a bit with this detailed, qualitative look
at the lives and experiences of family day care providers. . . This
book is a very informative and easy read that may balance the all too
common statistical and institutionalized writings that dominate this
field. Highly recommended."--Choice
"In We Are Not Babysitters,
Mary Tuominen dispels not only myths about why women choose to be
family child care providers and what it means to them, but also exposes
how our social attitudes about care and our public child care policies
shortchange these providers, most of whom are working mothers
themselves with their own tenuous hold on self-sufficiency. A must read
for policy makers, advocates, and practitioners."--Marcy Whitebook,
founding executive director, Center for the Child Care Workforce
(Washington, D.C.), and director, Center for the Study of Child Care
Employment, University of California, Berkeley
"This book is a wonderful addition to the literature on care
giving. We Are Not Babysitters
provides an illuminating analysis of the relation between the larger
values of society and the indifference to the needs of both the care
receivers and care givers. Tuominen’s sophisticated analysis creates a
marvelously acute picture of the way family child care in the home is
constructed and offered."--Arlene K. Daniels, professor emerita,
Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Northwestern University
Description:
Using in-depth interviews with child care
providers, Mary C. Tuominen explores the social, political, and
economic forces and processes that draw women into the work of family
child care. In We Are Not Babysitters, the lives and work of twenty
family child care providers of diverse race, ethnicity, immigrant
status, and social class serve as a window into understanding the
changing meanings of community, family, work, and care. Their stories
require us to rethink the social and economic value of paid child care
providers and their work.
About the Author:
Mary C.
Tuominen is an associate professor of sociology/anthropology and
women’s studies at Denison University, Granville, Ohio and the
co-editor of Child Care and Inequality.
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