Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index.
Contents
Introduction: childcare on trial -- Mother-employers: blanket accountability at home and at work -- Nannies on the market -- "They're too poor and they all smoke": ethnic logics and childcare hiring decisions -- Managing a home-centered childhood: intensive mothering by proxy -- Creating shadow mothers -- The "third-parent" ideal -- Nanny resistance strategies -- Partnerships: seeking a new model -- Untangling the mother-nanny knot.
