Babysitter: an American history

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In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history. --from publisher description.

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Full title :Babysitter : an American history / Miriam Forman-Brunell.

Summary

In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history. --from publisher description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):New York University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 315 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780814727591, 081472759X, 9780814728956, 0814728952
oclc:ocn276816706
LC Classification:HQ769.5
Dewey Decimal:649/.10248

The beginnings of babysitting -- Suburban parents and sitter unions -- The bobby-soxer babysitter -- Making better babysitters -- Boisterous babysitters -- Vixens and victims : porn and horror -- Sisterhoods of sitters -- Coming of wage at the end of the century -- Quitter sitters : the fall of babysitting.

Subjects

Babysitting Babysitting -- History -- 20th century.… Barnomsorg -- historia -- 1900-talet Child Care -- history Child Rearing -- history Garde des enfants -- Histoire -- 20e si… Geschichte 1920-2008 History History, 20th Century Kinderbetreuung -- Geschichte 20. Jh. -… Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle United States USA