Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy - Softcover

Pasolli, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774829249 ISBN 13: 9780774829243

Publisher: UBC Press, 2016

Synopsis

During the twentieth century, child care policy in British Columbia matured in the shadow of a persistent political uneasiness with working motherhood. Charting the growth of the child care movement in this province, Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma examines how ideas about motherhood, paid work, and social welfare have influenced universal child care discussions and consistently pushed access to child care to the margins of BC’s social policy agenda. Lisa Pasolli also celebrates those who have lobbied for child care as part of women’s rights as workers, parents, and citizens.

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Review

Much more than connecting the chronological dots (which is itself an important achievement), Pasolli provides an analytical explanation for the rather discouraging continuities that shaped decades of public debate and marginalized the childcare and employment needs of women and families ... A smart book on an issue we continue to wrestle with, and the sole monograph on the topic from a historian’s perspective, it will find its way on to many bookshelves.

Author: Esyllt W. Jones, University of Manitoba Source: BC Studies

From the Author

Lisa Pasolli is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. She researches the history of child care, social welfare, and women and gender in twentieth-century Canada. Her work has been published in BC Studies and Acadiensis.

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0774829249
• ISBN 13: 9780774829243
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282