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1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) : illustrations. |
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Gender & American culture
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Gender & American culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-324) and index. |
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Summary |
During World War II, American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers, and many of them relied on federally funded child care programs. At the end of the war, working mothers vigorously protested the termination of child care subsidies. In Citizen, Mother, Worker , Emilie Stoltzfus traces grassroots activism and national and local policy debates concerning public funding of children's day care in the two decades after the end of World War II. Using events in Cleveland, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; and the state of California, Stoltzfus identifies a prevailing belief among postwar policymakers that women could best serve the nation as homemakers. Although federal funding was briefly extended after the end of the war, grassroots campaigns for subsidized day care in Cleveland and Washington met with only limited success. In California, however, mothers asserted their importance to the state's economy as "productive citizens" and won a permanent, state-funded child care program. In addition, by the 1960s, federal child care funding gained new life as an alternative to cash aid for poor single mothers. These debates about the public's stake in what many viewed as a private matter help illuminate America's changing social, political, and fiscal priorities, as well as the meaning of female citizenship in the postwar period. |
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Child care -- Government policy -- United States.
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Child care -- Government policy. |
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United States. |
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Federal aid to child welfare -- United States.
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Federal aid to child welfare. |
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Federal aid to day care centers -- United States.
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Federal aid to day care centers. |
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Women -- Employment -- United States.
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Women -- Employment. |
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Women -- Government policy -- United States.
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Women -- Government policy. |
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Work and family -- United States.
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Work and family. |
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United States -- History -- 1945-
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History. |
Chronological Term |
1945- |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Social conditions. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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Politics and government. |
Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
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United States -- History -- 1945- |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-19989. |
Chronological Term |
Since 1945 |
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Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Stoltzfus, Emilie. Citizen, mother, worker. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 0807828122 0807854859 (DLC) 2003001849 (OCoLC)51581446 |
ISBN |
0807862320 (electronic book) |
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9780807862322 (electronic book) |
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0807828122 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780807828120 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0807854859 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9780807854853 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
Standard No. |
9780807862322 |