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Babysitting. --- Kongo (African people).

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On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together—without the kids. But “getting a sitter”—especially a dependable one—rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with “that girl”? It’s a question that discomfited parents have been asking ever since the emergence of the modern American teenage girl nearly a century ago. In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history.Informed by her research on the history of teenage girls’ culture, Forman-Brunell analyzes the babysitter, who has embodied adults’ fundamental apprehensions about girls’ pursuit of autonomy and empowerment. In fact, the grievances go both ways, as girls have been distressed by unsatisfactory working conditions. In her quest to gain a fuller picture of this largely unexamined cultural phenomenon, Forman-Brunell analyzes a wealth of diverse sources, such as The Baby-sitter’s Club book series, horror movies like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, urban legends, magazines, newspapers, television shows, pornography, and more.Forman-Brunell shows that beyond the mundane, understandable apprehensions stirred by hiring a caretaker to “mind the children” in one’s own home, babysitters became lightning rods for society’s larger fears about gender and generational change. In the end, experts’ efforts to tame teenage girls with training courses, handbooks, and other texts failed to prevent generations from turning their backs on babysitting.

Babysitting --- History --- American. --- Teenaged. --- babysitter. --- faces. --- many. --- mini-mother. --- temptress.

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"The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolution Enchanted by Daphne is legendary ecologist Peter Grant's personal account of his remarkable life and career. In this revelatory book, Grant takes readers from his childhood in World War II-era Britain to his ongoing research today in the Galápagos archipelago, vividly describing what it is like to do fieldwork in one of the most magnificent yet inhospitable places on Earth. This is also the story of two brilliant and courageous biologists as they raised a family together while balancing the demands of professional lives that would take them to the far corners of the globe. In 1973, Grant and his wife Rosemary embarked on a journey that would fundamentally change how we think about evolution. Over the next four decades, they visited the Galápagos every year to observe Darwin's famous finches on the remote, uninhabited island of Daphne Major. Documenting how eighteen species have diversified from a single ancestral species, they demonstrated that we could actually see and measure evolution in a natural setting. Grant recounts the blind alleys and breathtaking triumphs of this historic research as he and Rosemary followed in Darwin's footsteps-and ushered in a new era in ecology. A wonderfully absorbing portrait of a life in science, Enchanted by Daphne is an unforgettable chronicle of the travels and discoveries of one of the world's most influential naturalists"--

Grant, Peter R., --- Biologists --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General --- Autobiography. --- Award. --- Aztec Art. --- Babysitting. --- Balzan Prize. --- Bandage. --- Big Bird. --- Biochemistry. --- Biologist. --- Biology. --- Botswana. --- Bursera. --- Canary Islands. --- Career. --- Charles Darwin. --- Clothing. --- Clusia. --- Cordia. --- Courtship. --- Criticism. --- Cyperaceae. --- Daphne Major. --- Dartmoor. --- Darwin's finches. --- Distemper (paint). --- Dormitory. --- Drierite. --- Ecology. --- Ecosystem. --- Filter paper. --- Fritillaria. --- Front de libération du Québec. --- Geneticist. --- Grocery store. --- Gustavus Adolphus College. --- Head of state. --- His Master's Voice. --- Honeycreeper. --- Honorary degree. --- Hunter-gatherer. --- Imitation. --- Inbreeding. --- Insect. --- Jaw. --- John Maynard Smith. --- Kinkaku-ji. --- Laborer. --- Lecture. --- Limnology. --- Liqueur. --- London Zoo. --- Luc Hoffmann. --- Lunch. --- Magnirostris. --- Mangrove. --- McGill University. --- Meal. --- Molecular biology. --- New Guinea. --- Night heron. --- Nobel Conference. --- North America. --- Oak savanna. --- Paiute. --- Paleontology. --- Pangolin. --- Peat. --- Physical therapy. --- Pierre Trudeau. --- Pig slaughter. --- Pika. --- Pizza. --- Plate (dishware). --- Plough. --- Plumage. --- Plumbeous pigeon. --- Power steering. --- Prayer wheel. --- Provision (contracting). --- Pterin. --- Puffbird. --- Rainforest. --- Reproductive success. --- Sea lion. --- Sea-lion. --- Social group. --- Summer camp. --- Supervisor. --- Tentacle. --- The Various. --- Third grade. --- Total Immersion (augmented reality). --- Transvaal Museum. --- Turku. --- Uluru. --- Upholstery. --- Vegetation. --- Wistman's Wood. --- Xi'an. --- Zoology.