Babysitter: An American HistoryNYU Press, 26. 7. 2009 - 336 strán (strany) 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. |
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Suburban Parents and Sitter Unions | 45 |
The BobbySoxer Babysitter | 69 |
Making Better Babysitters | 93 |
Boisterous Babysitters | 121 |
Porn and Horror | 139 |
Sisterhoods of Sitters | 159 |
Coming of Wage at the End of the Century | 181 |
The Fall of Babysitting | 201 |
Notes | 221 |
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