Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth

Abstract

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