Babysitter : : An American History / / Miriam Forman-Brunell.
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 Am...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Beginnings of Babysitting
- 2 Suburban Parents and Sitter Unions
- 3 The Bobby-Soxer Babysitter
- 4 Making Better Babysitters
- 5 Boisterous Babysitters
- 6 Vixens and Victims
- 7 Sisterhoods of Sitters
- 8 Coming of Wage at the End of the Century
- 9 Quitter Sitters
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author