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Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship. Based on in-depth interviews with professional women and childcare providers- immigrant and American-born nannies as well as European au pairs-Shadow Mothers locates the roots of individual skirmishes between mothers and their childcare providers in broader cultural and social tensions. Macdonald argues that these conflicts arise from unrealistic ideals about mothering and inflexible career paths and work schedules, as well as from the devaluation of paid care work.
Au pairs. --- Child care. --- Child care services. --- Motherhood. --- Nannies. --- Child care --- Au pairs --- Nannies --- Child care services --- Motherhood --- american nannies. --- attachment. --- au pairs. --- career paths. --- caregivers. --- childcare providers. --- childrearing. --- complex bonds. --- conflicts. --- contemporary motherhood. --- cultural perspective. --- cultural social. --- europe. --- gender. --- hired mothers. --- immigrant caregivers. --- maternity. --- micropolitics. --- modern issues. --- motherhood. --- mothering. --- nannies. --- nonfiction. --- paid care. --- paid childcare. --- parenthood. --- parenting. --- professional women. --- relationships. --- social tensions. --- western world. --- women in the workforce. --- work schedules.
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"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important niche in this imagined European kinship: the traffic in women, or the circulation of East European women in West Europe in marriage and as domestic servants, nannies, personal attendants, and entertainers. Analyzing film, national policies, and an impressive range of work by theorists from Giorgio Agamben to Judith Butler, she develops a critical lens through which to think about the transnational continuum of "women's work." Parvulescu revisits Claude Lévi-Strauss's concept of kinship and its rearticulation by second-wave feminists, particularly Gayle Rubin, to show that kinship has traditionally been anchored in the traffic in women. Reading recent cinematic texts that help frame this, she reveals that in contemporary Europe, East European migrant women are exchanged to engage in labor customarily performed by wives within the institution of marriage. Tracing a pattern of what she calls Americanization, Parvulescu argues that these women thereby become responsible for the labor of reproduction. A fascinating cultural study as much about the consequences of the enlargement of the European Union as women's mobility, The Traffic in Women's Work questions the foundations of the notion of Europe today.
Women immigrants --- Women --- Human trafficking --- Abuse of --- Social conditions. --- europe, women, gender, labor, sex work, marriage, entertainment, personal attendants, nannies, domestic servants, european union, trade, capitalism, national policies, film, judith butler, giorgio agamben, transnational, levi-strauss, kinship, second wave feminism, gayle rubin, migrants, wives, mobility, reproduction, americanization, human trafficking, abuse, immigrants, nonfiction, history, sociology, hospitality, free love.
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Using Sweden as a case study, this book combines theories of family practices, care and childhood studies with the personal perspectives of nannies, au pairs, parents and children to provide new understandings of what constitutes care in nanny families.
Child care. --- Care of children --- Childcare --- Children --- Care --- Care and hygiene --- Personnes au pair --- Garde d'enfants --- Enfants --- Aspect social --- Soins --- Child care --- Nannies --- Social aspects --- Nursemaids --- Nurserymaids --- Nurses (Child care workers) --- Child care workers --- Attitude envers les enfants --- Enfance --- Enfant --- Et les enfants --- Progéniture --- Relations avec les enfants --- (attentats-suicides) --- (droit) --- Babysitting --- Garde des enfants --- Services de garde d'enfants --- Assistants maternels --- Relais assistants maternels --- Garde des enfants d'âge scolaire --- Garderies --- Travail non rémunéré --- Services marchands à domicile --- Jeunes filles au pair --- Personnel de la petite enfance --- Activités para-universitaires --- Jeunesse --- Au cinéma --- Dans l'art --- Livres et lecture --- Loisirs --- Psychologie --- Statut juridique --- Langage --- Garde --- Travail
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Stroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these women are of Caribbean descent, and they have long been a crucial component of New York’s economy, providing childcare for white middle- and upper-middleclass families. Raising Brooklyn offers an in-depth look at the daily lives of these childcare providers, examining the important roles they play in the families whose children they help to raise. Tamara Mose Brown spent three years immersed in these Brooklyn communities: in public parks, public libraries, and living as a fellow resident among their employers, and her intimate tour of the public spaces of gentrified Brooklyn deepens our understanding of how these women use their collective lives to combat the isolation felt during the workday as a domestic worker. Though at first glance these childcare providers appear isolated and exploited—and this is the case for many—Mose Brown shows that their daily interactions in the social spaces they create allow their collective lives and cultural identities to flourish. Raising Brooklyn demonstrates how these daily interactions form a continuous expression of cultural preservation as a weapon against difficult working conditions, examining how this process unfolds through the use of cell phones, food sharing, and informal economic systems. Ultimately, Raising Brooklyn places the organization of domestic workers within the framework of a social justice movement, creating a dialogue between workers who don’t believe their exploitative work conditions will change and an organization whose members believe change can come about through public displays of solidarity.
Nannies --- Public spaces --- West Indians --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Nursemaids --- Nurserymaids --- Nurses (Child care workers) --- Brooklyn, N.Y. --- Bruculinu (New York, N.Y.) --- Bruḳlin (New York, N.Y.) --- Бруклін (New York, N.Y.) --- Бруклин (New York, N.Y.) --- Μπρούκλιν (New York, N.Y.) --- Brouklin (New York, N.Y.) --- Broklino (New York, N.Y.) --- 브루클린 (New York, N.Y.) --- Pŭruk'ŭllin (New York, N.Y.) --- Bŭruk'ŭllin (New York, N.Y.) --- ברוקלין (New York, N.Y.) --- Bruklina (New York, N.Y.) --- Bruklinas (New York, N.Y.) --- ブルックリン区 (New York, N.Y.) --- Burukkurin-ku (New York, N.Y.) --- ブルックリン (New York, N.Y.) --- Burukkurin (New York, N.Y.) --- Brucculinu (New York, N.Y.) --- 布鲁克林区 (New York, N.Y.) --- Bulukelin Qu (New York, N.Y.) --- 布鲁克林 (New York, N.Y.) --- Bulukelin (New York, N.Y.) --- Ethnology --- Cities and towns --- Child care workers --- Kings County (N.Y.) --- E-books --- Brooklyn. --- Raising. --- childcare. --- children. --- daily. --- examining. --- families. --- help. --- important. --- in-depth. --- lives. --- look. --- offers. --- play. --- providers. --- raise. --- roles. --- these. --- they. --- whose.
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