Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering
by
Cameron Lynne Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal...