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Citizen, Mother, Worker - Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care after the Second World War (Paperback, New edition)
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Citizen, Mother, Worker - Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care after the Second World War (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Gender and American Culture
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During World War II, American women entered the workforce in
unprecedented numbers, and many of them relied on federally funded
child care programs. At the end of the war, working mothers
vigorously protested the termination of child care subsidies. In
Citizen, Mother, Worker , Emilie Stoltzfus traces grassroots
activism and national and local policy debates concerning public
funding of children's day care in the two decades after the end of
World War II. Using events in Cleveland, Ohio; Washington, D.C.;
and the state of California, Stoltzfus identifies a prevailing
belief among postwar policymakers that women could best serve the
nation as homemakers. Although federal funding was briefly extended
after the end of the war, grassroots campaigns for subsidized day
care in Cleveland and Washington met with only limited success. In
California, however, mothers asserted their importance to the
state's economy as ""productive citizens"" and won a permanent,
state-funded child care program. In addition, by the 1960s, federal
child care funding gained new life as an alternative to cash aid
for poor single mothers. These debates about the public's stake in
what many viewed as a private matter help illuminate America's
changing social, political, and fiscal priorities, as well as the
meaning of female citizenship in the postwar period. |Stoltzfus
traces grassroots activism and national and local policy debates
surrounding public funding of childcare services for working
parents in the two decades after the end of World War II. Using
case studies from Cleveland, Washington, D.C., and the state of
California, she explains why we still don't have adequate child
care in America. The book helps illuminate America's changing
social, political, and fiscal priorities, as well as the meaning of
female citizenship in the postwar period.
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