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Babysitter : an American history /

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In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history. --from publisher description.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Forman-Brunell, Miriam, 1955-
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Babysitting > United States > History > 20th century.
Child Care > history
Child Rearing > history
History, 20th Century
United States
Garde des enfants > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > General.
Babysitting
USA
Kinderbetreuung > USA > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Barnomsorg > historia > 1900-talet.
1900-1999
Geschichte 1920-2008.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The beginnings of babysitting
  • Suburban parents and sitter unions
  • The bobby-soxer babysitter
  • Making better babysitters
  • Boisterous babysitters
  • Vixens and victims : porn and horror
  • Sisterhoods of sitters
  • Coming of wage at the end of the century
  • Quitter sitters : the fall of babysitting.