Citizen, Mother, Worker
Subtitle: Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care after the Second World War (Gender and American Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780807828120
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Central government policies; Children; Labour economics; Social history; Women's studies; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; Government policy; Federal aid to child welfare; Women's Studies - History; Family & Relationships; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Family/Marriage; USA; Parenting - Child Rearing; Women's Studies/Gender Studies; History/United States: General; Public Policy; Women's Studies - General; Public Policy - General; Child care; Federal aid to day care center; Federal aid to day care centers; United States
First sentence: Even before their troops came home victorious, Americans began to imagine the shape of a postwar United States.