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1 online resource (328 pages) |
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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: Porn and Horror; 7 Sisterhoods of Sitters; 8 Coming of Wage at the End of the Century; 9 Quitter Sitters: The Fall of Babysitting; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author. |
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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 |
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Print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Babysitting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Garde des enfants -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Babysitting
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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1900-1999
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American. |
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Teenaged. |
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babysitter. |
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faces. |
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many. |
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mini-mother. |
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temptress. |
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History
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Print version: Forman-Brunell, Miriam. Babysitter : An American History. New York : NYU Press, ©2009 9780814727591 |
| ISBN |
9780814728536 (electronic bk.) |
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0814728537 (electronic bk.) |
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9780814727591 (alk. paper) |
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081472759X (alk. paper) |
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AU@ 000055798089 |
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DEBSZ 39724729X |
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DEBSZ 449286126 |
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