Care and Equality
Subtitle: Inventing a New Family Politics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415928229
First sentence: YEARS NOW AFTER THE EVENT, I can still see Zoe Baird leaning toward the microphone before the Senate Judiciary Committee, eyes puffy, mouth tight, trying to be understood, explaining again and again why she had hired illegal aliens as nanny and chauffeur, and why she had not paid Social Security taxes on them, while she worked in the top managerial ranks of the Aetna Insurance Company-and why this should not bar her appointments to the office of attorney general.