Child Care and Inequality

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93351-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Child Care and Inequality provides an in-depth investigation of carework for children and youth of all ages. This outstanding collection of original essays encourages us to rethink carework and to explore policies that address the needs of both care recipients and careworkers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kurz, Demie

Cancian, Francesca M.

London, Andrew S.

Reviere, Rebecca

Tuominen, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to the Volume
Section I: Re-Thinking Family Care Work
2. Almost Worried to Death: Commonalities and Dividions among American Women Caring for Children, 1850-1940
3. Stratification and Care Work: The Case of mothers
4. Comrades en el Barrio: the cultural Practice of Co-Mothering in a Rural Paraguyan Neighborhood
5. Nurturing Babies, Protecting Men: The dynamics of Women's Post-Partum Caregiving Practices
5. Developing non-Oppressive Standards of Good Care
Section II: Family Intersections with the State
7. Health-Related Caregiving and Welfare Reform: The Choices Welfare-Reliant Women and Policy Makers Face
8. Making Mothers Fungible: The Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Privatization of Foster Care
9. Are Breadwinner Welfare States Friendly to Mothers and Single Mothers?
Saction III: Carework in the Marketplace and Community
10. Theorizing Care and Inequality
11. Child Care across Sectors: A Comparison of the Work of Child Care in Three Settings
12. Where Teachers Can Make a Livable Wage: Activism to Address Inequalities in the Child Care Workforce
13. Activist Mothering and Community Work: Fighting Oppression in Low Income Neighborhoods
14. Professional Caregivers ans Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth
15. Social Support Organizations for Parents of Children with Cancer Associations: Local and National Problems and Prospects

Über Autor(innen)

Francesca M. Cancian is Professor of Sociology at University of California, Irvine. Demie Kurz is co-director of Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of For Richer, For Poorer (Routledge, 1995). Andrew S. London is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kent State University. Rebecca Reviere is Associate Professor at Howard University. Mary Tuominen is Associate Professor of Sociology at Denison University.