"In We Are Not Babysitters, Mary Tuominen dispels not only myths
about why women choose to be family child care providers and what
it means to them, but also exposes how our social attitudes about
care and our public child care policies shortchange these
providers, most of whom are working mothers themselves with their
own tenuous hold on self-sufficiency. A must read for policy
makers, advocates, and practitioners."-Marcy Whitebook, founding
executive director, Center for the Child Care Workforce
(Washington, D.C.), and director, Center for the Study of Child
Care Employment, University of California, Berkeley "This book is a
wonderful addition to the literature on care giving. We Are Not
Babysitters provides an illuminating analysis of the relation
between the larger values of society and the indifference to the
needs of both the care receivers and care givers. Tuominen's
sophisticated analysis creates a marvelously acute picture of the
way family child care in the home is constructed and
offered."-Arlene K. Daniels, professor emerita, Department of
Sociology and Women's Studies, Northwestern University Using
in-depth interviews with child care providers, Mary C. Tuominen
explores the social, political, and economic forces and processes
that draw women into the work of family child care. In We Are Not
Babysitters, the lives and work of twenty family child care
providers of diverse race, ethnicity, immigrant status, and social
class serve as a window into understanding the changing meanings of
community, family, work, and care. Their stories require us to
rethink the social and economic value of paid child care providers
and their work. Mary C. Tuominen is an associate professor of
sociology/anthropology and women's studies at Denison University,
Granville, Ohio and the co-editor of Child Care and Inequality.
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