Manufacturing Motherhood: The Shadow Work of Nannies and Au Pairs |
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Authors: | Macdonald Cameron L |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, CT, 06269 |
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Abstract: | This paper explores how working mothers and paid child care providers interpret the division of mothering labor in the context of in-home care. The nannies, au pairs, and working mothers interviewed for this study make sense of their shared mother-work in the context of a dominant belief system that values intensive mothering. Consequently, in addition to negotiating the allocation of mothering tasks, they must also negotiate the meanings assigned to these tasks: specifically, they manufacture an image of shared mothering that contradicts their day-to-day practice. |
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Keywords: | motherhood child care work and family |
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