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Mattie Voorheis marked it as to-read Aug 21, It provided glimpses of adult life, real and imagined, and an introduction to the strangeness of other households. If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'. In the end, experts' efforts to tame teenage girls with training courses, handbooks, and other texts failed to prevent generations from turning their backs on babysitting. Kathy Fredrickson marked it as to-read Aug 04,

Most articles about babysitting in adult-oriented periodicals have historically focused on the behavioral problems of girls, framing them as disruptive, irresponsible, and disturbingly "unfeminine" in their supposed lack of proper maternalism. During and after the s, the media of pornography altered that message, making the sitter a shining example of femininity, but only its most harmful aspect: Forman-Brunell deftly connects this portrayal to men's anxieties about the diminishing authority of patriarchy during the latter decades of the twentieth century, revealing that definitions of girlhood have had as much emotional significance for grown men as they have for girls, albeit for starkly different reasons.

Such adult anxieties and desires, while previously under-analyzed, have nonetheless been widely visible in American culture; what has remained obscure until now is the history of how teens themselves have assessed the "career" of babysitting, and Forman-Brunell culls evidence from teen books and magazines to reveal the conflicted nature of girls' responses: Low pay, bratty or violent children, inconsiderate employers, and even unwelcome sexual advances from the occasional father have long been deterrents to babysitting expressed through communities of teenagers.

Babysitter: An American History

At the end of the twentieth century, as girls' opportunities for better-paying employment increased, fewer and fewer of them chose babysitting as a desirable job, leaving many parents without adequate resources for child care. One of this book's greatest strengths is its discussion of babysitting as actual work , from the employee's perspective, replete with potential pitfalls that even UAW members would recognize. Forman-Brunell teaches her readers to jettison their comfortable fantasy of babysitting as easy, fun, or "natural" for young females and instead to recognize their labor as labor.

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I have to put it down and move on Jul 31, Jen rated it it was ok Shelves: I was excited to read this and sort of let down. A little too boring.

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Interesting theories on teen girl culture something that always fascinates me , but presented in a very structured way. There were times when I felt like I was reading someone's very researched high school essay. Oct 11, mrcurly Mrcurly rated it really liked it. Best babysitting book i've read!

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