UID:
kobvindex_HPB779828079
Format:
1 online resource (328 pages)
ISBN:
9780814728536
,
0814728537
Content:
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
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Forman-Brunell, Miriam. Babysitter : An American History. New York : NYU Press, ©2009 ISBN 9780814727591
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
