We Are Not Babysitters: Family Childcare Providers Redefine Work and Care

by Mary Tuominen

Overview

Using in-depth interviews with child care providers, Mary C. Tuominen explores the social, political, and economic forces and processes that draw women into the work of family child care. In We Are Not Babysitters, the lives and work of twenty family child care providers of diverse race, ethnicity, immigrant status, and social class serve as a window into understanding the changing meanings of community, family, work, and care. Their stories require us to rethink the social and economic value of paid child care providers and their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813532837
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	07/02/2003
Edition description:	First Edition, First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	1340L (what's this?)

About the Author

Mary C. Tuominen is an associate professor of sociology/anthropology and women's studies at Denison University, Granville, Ohio and the co-editor of Child Care and Inequality

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
1	"Some People Don't Consider it Work": Investigating the Work of Family Child Care	1
2	"I Know How it Feels to Give Your Kids to Somebody Else": Synthesizing the Family and the Market in the Work of Family Child Care	34
3	"You're Just a Housewife": Contesting Stereotypes about Motherhood, Marriage, and Family Child Care	66
4	"When You Have Your Family, You Need Your Money": Employment Opportunities and the Meaning of Family Child Care Work	91
5	"It's Word of Mouth": Social Networks, Local Markets, and the Provision of State-Subsidized Family Child Care	128
6	"That's Where I Saw the Need": Family Child Care As Community Care Work	152
7	"I Had to Educate the World That This is My Work": Redefining and Revaluing Family Child Care Work	171
	Notes	191
	Bibliography	193
	Index	203