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Babysitter – An American History

Autor Miriam Forman–brunell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2011
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 American teenage girl nearly a century ago. In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history.
Informed by her research on the history of teenage girls' culture, Forman-Brunell analyzes the babysitter, who has embodied adults' fundamental apprehensions about girls' pursuit of autonomy and empowerment. In fact, the grievances go both ways, as girls have been distressed by unsatisfactory working conditions. In her quest to gain a fuller picture of this largely unexamined cultural phenomenon, Forman-Brunell analyzes a wealth of diverse sources, such as The Baby-sitter's Club book series, horror movies like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, urban legends, magazines, newspapers, television shows, pornography, and more.
Forman-Brunell shows that beyond the mundane, understandable apprehensions stirred by hiring a caretaker to "mind the children" in one's own home, babysitters became lightning rods for society's larger fears about gender and generational change. 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814728956
ISBN-10: 0814728952
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 22 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: MI – New York University

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Descriere

Analyzes the babysitty, who embodies adult apprehension about girls' pursuit of autonomy and empowerment

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction; 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 in Soft Porn and Horror Movies; 7. Sisterhoods of Sitters in the 1980s; 8. Coming of Wage at the End of the Century; 9. Quitter Sitters: The Fall of BabysittingNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Recenzii

"It is remarkable that babysitting has lacked a history. Meticulously researched, written with humor and acute insight, this book not only chronicles the actual experience of babysitting over half a century, but shows how the babysitter served as a cultural lightning rod for anxieties over shifting women’s liberation, the waning of masculine authority, teen sexuality, and the decline of the nuclear family. Powerful, provocative, persuasive." Steven Mintz, author of Huck’s Raft

"Ms. Forman-Brunell certainly brings to this project a scholar's zeal for painstaking research…[Forman-Brunell] does a service by documenting one of the few remaining common denominators of American life -- though this one, too, is disappearing." Wall Street Journal 14th July 2009

"In this well-documented, illustrated discussion of our culture's perceptions of babysitters through the years, the author skillfully demonstrates how changing social mores and attitudes toward girls and women were responsible for the astonishing range of notions about babysitters, running the gamut from child-care provider to home wrecker...Forman-Brunell makes excellent use of the various babysitting handbooks published over the years, and, particularly, of the commercial novels (e.g., The Baby-Sitters Club series) and movies that came out, from domestic comedies to horror films reflecting parents' (and babysitters') worst nightmares.”--Ellen Gilbert, Princeton, NJ

"From horror movies and pornography to the squeaky-clean cast of the Baby-sitters Club books, our cultural views of babysitters reveal more about our societal hang-ups than they do about the neighbourhood teenagers who watch our children, argues Miriam Forman-Brunell in Babysitter: An American History." Shannon Proudfoot, The Calgary Herald, 7th Aug 2009

"What might have just been an amusing collection of related relics is instead a sophisticated and smooth history of girl culture and shifting family values in Forman-Brunell’s capable hands…It's a thorough investigation of our cultural anxieties about childcare and an intriguing look at what happens when a teenage girl rules the roost." BUST Magazine, Aug/Sept 2009"serves scholars teaching not only social history but also childhood studies, gender studies, girlhood and women’s studies, and play history. Academics from a wide range of disciplines, as well as general readers, will enjoy it. That the examples of some of the artifacts discussed are partof the extensive collection of The Strong’s National Museum of Play lends the book extra interest for readers of the American Journal of Play. Personally, I want to visit to see the baby-sitter Barbie doll with her pink striped apron! She may bear little resemblance to the exhausted baby-sitter in Rockwell’s painting, but she presents another depiction of this important American institution that Forman-Brunell so effectively explores." —Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, American Journal of Play, Fall 2011