Demanding Child Care: Women's Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971 by Natalie M. Fousekis

Demanding Child Care: Women's Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

Natalie M. Fousekis

264 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
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During World War II, as women stepped in to fill jobs vacated by men in the armed services, the federal government established public child care centers in local communities for the first time. When the government announced plans to withdraw fundi...

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