
Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights
The Shaping of America`s Child Care Policy
Sonya Michel(Author)
Yale University Press
Will be published approx. on 1. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-300-08551-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
603 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-08551-8 (9780300085518)
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Person
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.