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Author Fousekis, Natalie Marie.

Title Demanding child care : women's activism and the politics of welfare, 1940-71 / Natalie M. Fousekis.

Publication Info. Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Women in American history
Women in American history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.
Contents Californians secure wartime child care -- Postwar hopes: the fight for permanent child care, 1945-47 -- Child care "is a state problem": working mothers and educators take action, 1947-51 -- "We need to stand together": Theresa Mahler, Mary Young, and the coalition's victory in the 1950s -- "We do not consider ourselves welfare cases": education-based child care and low-income working families, 1958-65 -- A different kind of welfare state: California's child care coalition in the age of protest, 1966-71.
Summary A revealing study of early child care political action and advocates in California.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Child care -- California -- History -- 20th century.
Child care.
California.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Child care -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States.
Women political activists -- California -- History -- 20th century.
Women political activists.
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Public welfare -- California -- History -- 20th century.
Public welfare.
Public welfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Fousekis, Natalie Marie. Demanding child care. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, ©2011 9780252036255 (DLC) 2011006824 (OCoLC)704557120
ISBN 9780252093241 (electronic book)
0252093240 (electronic book)
1283244349
9781283244343
9780252036255
0252036255
Standard No. 9786613244345