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Author Macdonald, Cameron Lynne.

Title Shadow mothers : nannies, au pairs, and the micropolitics of mothering / Cameron Lynne Macdonald.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages)
text file
Bibliography 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.
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Summary Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship.
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Subject Child care.
Child care.
Au pairs.
Au pairs.
Nannies.
Nannies.
Child care services.
Child care services.
Motherhood.
Motherhood.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Motherhood.
Other Form: Print version: Macdonald, Cameron Lynne. Shadow mothers. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520222328 (DLC) 2010030922 (OCoLC)607974835
ISBN 9780520947818 electronic book
0520947819 electronic book
9780520222328 cloth alkaline paper
0520222326 cloth alkaline paper
9780520266971 paperback alkaline paper
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